When we planned our weekend getaway to South Dakota, one of the things I desperately wanted to do but couldn’t originally fit into our schedule was visiting the town of De Smet, SD. Those of you who knew me as a child knew I was absolutely obsessed with Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the… 
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While we were in Rapid City, we knew we needed to stop by the South Dakota Air & Space Museum. It’s located outside of the main gate of Ellsworth Air Force Base, just northeast of Rapid City. This was another impromptu stop on our trip, and one we enjoyed as well! Admission to the museum… 
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While we were visiting the Black Hills region of South Dakota, we stumbled across a place called Reptile Gardens that Andy insisted we visit. After all, I had planned most of our activities on the trip, so it was only fair we do something he wanted to. Apparently, Reptile Gardens has been around since 1937–… 
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I first began writing my posts about our trip to South Dakota back in October(!!!) and have yet to finish these posts. The next two weeks will be posts about our trip so I can finally mark this mini-series off my list! 🙂 No trip to South Dakota is complete without a trip to Custer State… 
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On every vacation Andy and I take, we like to mix free activities with pricier ones. For our camping weekend in South Dakota, we decided our splurge would be a horseback ride through the Badlands. Unlike most national and state parks, the Badlands allows private horseback tour guides to bring their horses onto their land–… 
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