Drive to Sheridan Lake & Flying T

Panoramic view of Sheridan Lake and beach. Just one of our scenic drive days.

This is on the high road above the lake. There are open ranges in some areas. These cows weren't sure what we were doing, we just stopped to let them cross the road.

As you can see this cow was keeping an eye on us.

Same cow he just kept watching us.

We ran across this area on our drive. It was really pretty. I'm guessing this is a gated community and the mail people do not want to go up into the hills because it is quite a lengthy drive and the cabins are all over the mountain.

This is an RV park that we came across driving down the mountain. There is also a supper club up here called the Circle B where they have chuckwagon dinners, horsebak riding, and entertainment.

We opted to go to the Flying T for our chuckwagon supper and show (close to the RV park so we could have a couple of beers). Also, it was highly recommended by some of the locals here.

We two monkeys outside the supper club. Taken by a nice couple that we met who live here locally and come to this place every other week for dinner and the show.

Inside the club. The band was setting up and tuning their instruments. They didn't start the entertainment until after supper was served.

The band was quite good. In fact, the second guy from the left used to be on the Hee Haw TV Show  (Buck Owens and Roy Clerk for those who aren't familar with this kind of music). A couple of the men are retired teachers, etc. and this is their new part-time profession and hobby in the summertime.

Of course, you always have to have audience participation. Here these 2 poor souls were picked out of the crowd.

Heeeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwwww! They played their make-shift instruments quite well.

Audience applause for all the entertainers. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

A photo of this huge waterpark which was just down the road from where we stayed. Needless to say it was quite a busy place because of the high temps (unusual for South Dakota).

A view of Hwy. 16 that goes through downtown Keystone. This is a tourist town with lots of things to see and do from panning for gold, hiking, there's a cave here that you can go through, miniature golf, zip line ride to name just a few (along with museums, etc. for the less-active). 

You can see some of the bikers who came to the area early to also play tourists with the rest of us folks before going up to Sturgis.