The HBO series DEADWOOD. I was mesmerized by it. And when I discovered that our local bus tour agency, Cyr Bus Lines was offering a South Dakota tour with a specie stop-over in the actual town of Deadwood, I was all in!

So we had a few hours to mosey around in that little settlement. And to see the actual storefronts with the proprietors’ names (right out of the tv series and historically correct) well, to me it felt like an amusement park. But yeah, it is touristy. You know, every afternoon Wild Bill Hickok gets gunned down at the poker table. For me the stopover was much too short, and we didn’t have enough time to go up on Boot Hill to view Wild Bill’s and Calamity Jane’s side-by-side graves. It was a wonderful trip, especially getting to walk around in the lunar-like landscape of The Badlands. I’d never gotten the travel-bug before Deadwood, but after that: look out World! 🤠