Tuesday, August 22, 2017 – Saturday Roy and I went to nearby Sturgis, South Dakota, home of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally where over 500,000 cyclists gather each year.
Motorcycle enthusiasts from around the world flock to this town during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Motorcycle traffic to and around South Dakota typically increases as early as two weeks before the official start date of the event and continues for as late as two weeks after the conclusion.
It’s Biker Heaven…Each year, Sturgis’ Main Street becomes a sea of motorcycles, leather and denim, not to mention, people.
Roy and I rode through the very quiet, very empty town after all of the biker’s had gone home.
The biggest businesses were Saloons. We stopped at this one to see their gift shop and restaurant and found that only the bar was open. I took the photo of me pointing to the Budweiser sign kind of as a joke. We don’t know exactly what all the bikers do while they are in Sturgis but saloons and restaurants were all big and stood out.
I sneaked a picture of some bikers at the bar while we were looking at all the biker clothing. 
In the gift shop there were these three very unique bicycles. We don’t know anything about them, just that they are motorized and look cool!
My wonderful hubby Roy always loves staging funny photos. He took his mini motorcycle off the back of our truck and posed here for a photo. We posted on Facebook that he was riding his “Hog” in Sturgis! He knew our son Chip, and our friend Kevin would get a kick out of seeing Roy on his “hog” in Sturgis. Our friend Leanna said his hog looks more than a piglet. She’s a funny one!! 
On Sunday afternoon we went to check out what Wall Drug is all about! I’ll share about that next time!
When this blog post is published Tuesday morning Dora, Boots and her Explorers will be on our way to Casper, Wyoming which is the halfway point in our drive to Boulder, Wyoming where we will stay a week or two. We originally planned to go back to Yellowstone National Park next, but since we have already been there and there are a lot of new places in Utah we want to see we’re changing our travel plans. We are as far north in the US as we will go this year. From here on we will be going south towards Route 66 seeing as much as possible along the way there!
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