Day 42 - Thursday, August 28, 1997Rafter-J Bar Ranch Campground, Hill City, South Dakota - We drove past the Badlands again on our way to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where legend has it there lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon(uh) whose woman ran off with another guy. It was quite an experience driving from the plains and Badlands and then encountering the Black Hills, which is a mountain Ranger similar to the Smoky Mountains, but a bit taller.When we arrived at the campground a thunderstorm was a-brewing. "If only we'd been an hour earlier", we thought. But then we realized that since we moved from Central to Mountain time we were an hour earlier, so it really didn't make a difference after all.
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