It was to be a down day for me today. Bill headed out for the Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth AFB east of Rapid City. I slept in until 9, had breakfast, worked on photos, cleaned up a bit in the RV. At 12:30 Bill called from Keystone saying that the Tracker was having problems starting. He had managed to push it and get it going and would be home soon. He had stopped at the commissary to pick up a few items. We unloaded those, and I looked up car repair places in Hill City. We headed out. The place we had wanted to go to was closed up tighter than a drum. As we rode through Hill City, I saw a sign over a shack saying “Auto Repair”, so we pulled in. So cool – a place run by aging biker dudes. They tested the battery, banged on the starter, but nothing. He called a Napa store in Rapid City, and they had a starter.
They pushed us to get us going, and we did the 1.5 hour round-trip to Rapid City and came back with the new started to the biker dude place. While they were installing it, we wandered the streets of Hill City. It is very much like the main drag in Gatlinburg TN – lots of gift/souvenir shops, restaurants, coffee shops. We split an ice cream cone and headed back to the biker dude place. It was all fixed and running. The guys there were really nice. The guy who did the repair had a nifty restored hot rod out front, so Bill figured he knew what he was doing.
Back to the campground at 4:30. So much for my off-day. Bill went down to the camp shop and got a pizza for dinner. It wasn’t bad. Now we are watching the Rapid Rooter guys unclog the restrooms next to us. They have been out of order for two days. So much entertainment here.
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