From the Black Hills

This morning I woke up in my new tent for the first time on the edge of the Black Hills in South Dakota, just a few miles away from Mount Rushmore. I’m taking a couple nights to camp out and catch up with everything. This is the first time I’ve been alone in quite a while. I’ve had constant company for over a month. It feels good to have the day to myself, be on my own schedule, and to wake up next to the forest with beautiful pines.

It’s a beautiful day. Absolutely gorgeous. I’m in Mountain Time Zone officially as well. It may not be “real” camping, sitting here on my laptop with wireless in the campground, but hey, I gotta get caught up with things. So there is lots of new reading material to come soon!

Today I’ll probably relax until lunch and type up as much as I can, grab some lunch, then explore. I’ll head over to Mount Rushmore and then up to the Needles Highway through the Black Hills. And tonight another relaxing night in the tent. I’ll go to bed when the sun goes down and get up when the sun rises.