South Dakota - The Begining

Mammoth Outside "Mammoth Site"

Today I flew out to Rapid City, South Dakota for my annual vacation. The flight out of Dayton was ok, and I made my connection in Minneapolis, where I met my mom. However, my luggage did not make the connection. We arrived in Rapid City and went down to baggage claim our bags, however, mine did not show up on the carousal. The baggage claim lady said it was going to be on the next flight which was arriving in an hour. Sadly she lied, it was on the next flight out of Minneapolis, but it was arriving in two hours not one. So I spoke with the Delta representative and they said they could have my luggage delivered to my hotel. My luggage showed up 5:00PM.

Even though I did not have my luggage, it did not prevent us from sightseeing. We drove down to the “Mammoth Site” which is working archaeological dig. At the site they are excavating mammoth skeletons, two types woolly mammoth and columbian mammoths, that fell into the spring millions of years ago. The site is interesting, lots of bones and tusks. I would recommend it.

So this was the start of of our trip. Tomorrow we head down to Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park.

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