Day 46 - 2 long 1 short 1 long

We are off to ride the 1880 Steam Train. It is a 1926 Baldwin Steam Locomotive 2-6-2. Starting in Hill City South Dakota to Keystone. 

 

What do you talk?
What do you talk?

You can talk, you can bicker.
You can talk, you can bicker.
You can talk, talk, talk, talk
You can bicker, bicker, bicker.
You can talk all you wanna,
But it's different than it was.

Gone with the hogshead, cask and demijohn. Gone with the sugar barrel, pickle barrel, milk pan,
gone with the tub and the pail and the till. 

Yes sir, Yes sir. 

Cash for the merchandise.
Cash for the buttonhooks.
Cash for the cotton goods.
Cash for the hard goods.
Cash for the soft goods
Cash for the fancy goods.
Cash for the noggins, and the piggins, and the firkins.
Cash for the hogshead, cask and demijohn.
Cash for the crackers, and the pickles, and the flypaper.

Yes sir, Yes sir. 

But he doesn't know the territory. 

KW, what are you doing? The tour guides brother was going to play Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man. After rehersal, He caught his class ring on the gutter. He had to have his ring cut off. He lost the job. He still remembers all his lines. One of my favorite musicals. Yes sir, Yes sir. 
 

Salty Sam was tryin' to stuff Sweet Sue in a burlap sack.

"If you don't give me the deed to your ranch I'll throw you on the railroad track!"

And then he grabbed her...
(Help he grabbed me, help!)
He tied her up...
(Here we go again... same routine... tyin' me up...)
He threw her on the railraod track,
(He's throwin' me on the railroad track!!!)
The train started comin'
(Ohhh! Here comes the train! Here comes the train!! Help! ... Help! ... Oh!!! Help help!... help...)

And then...and then...
And then along came Jones
Tall thin Jones.
Slow walkin' Jones, Low talkin' Jones.

Hey tour guide, how bout this one. I gotta million of em. Maybe we could take this on the road. Ok fine, I give up, you just appear to have no rhythm. I got Rhythm, who could.  ok ok, 

 

Ok tour guide, now where to?  Jewel Cave National Monument. Caves?  KW doesn't do Caves. No sir, No sir.  

 

Mrs tour guide and B get to stamping. 

 

 

Hey KW, now we are off to Wind Cave National Park. Another cave, sorry, as I said, KW don't do caves. 

 

Mrs tour guide and, whoa, just a minute. Who is that stamping. Sorry KW, Mrs tour guide met him at Jewel Cave. We decided he should continue the Most Excellent Adventure. We forgot to introduce him to the crew. Everyone, this is BH, he is a Bighorn Sheep. Ok, I guess it's ok. Welcome to the crew BH. 

 

 

Hey tour guide, this is one of the tunnels in the cave. Now you know why I stay far away from caves. Hey wait, there is BH again. Well, KW, you don't do caves. 

 

Bison in the road. They are big and bad. Don't go near them and wait for them to get off the road. 

 

Coyote. 

 

More crazy Prairie dogs. 

 

TTFN:

Jewel Cave National Monument. 

With more than 132 miles surveyed, Jewel Cave is recognized as the third longest cave in the world. Cave tours provide opportunities for viewing its wide variety of stalactites, stalagmites, draperies, and frostwork, flowstone, boxwork and hydromagnesite balloons.

Wind Cave National Park. 

One of the world's longest and most complex caves and 28,295 acres of mixed-grass prairie, ponderosa pine forest, and associated wildlife are the main features of the park. The cave is well known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs.