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  1. 37 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    I’m case you think I’m exaggerating behold- the 40 1 star reviews almost all talking about how awful the staff was 

     

    https://www.google.com/travel/hotels/serena inn rapid city/entity/CgoI_5e5nvSBheV6EAE/reviews?g2lb=2502548%2C4258168%2C4306835%2C4317915%2C4322823%2C4328159%2C4330862%2C4358983%2C4371335%2C4401769%2C4403882%2C4417925%2C4419364%2C4424916%2C4425793%2C4270859%2C4284970%2C4412693&hl=en&gl=us&un=1&q=serena inn rapid city&rp=EP-XuZ70gYXlejgCQABIAcABAg&ictx=1&utm_campaign=sharing&utm_medium=link&utm_source=htls&hrf=IgNVU0QqFgoHCOQPEAgYHRIHCOQPEAkYBRgHIAI

     

    hotels.com gave me $100 (he was like- wow- that guy was awful- I thought you might be exaggerating- I’m so sorry) and Wells Fargo gonna dispute charges and refund me my money. 
    Yikes- what an awful experience. 
    the only thing I can think is they are used to catering To budget conscious travelers and have contempt for them. Really ugly. 

    HAHAHA, I've stayed at that place. It was a different name at the time. Still a shit hole. 

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  2. On 8/15/2020 at 10:50 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

    We just checked in to a pretty shitty motel in Rapid City South Dakota. 
    We are staying on the third floor, no luggage carrier, I had to haul just about everything we own up 3 flights of stairs in the roach motel- for a place costing me $928.00 for 8 nights and it sucks. 
    After I finished with that I got to do the family’s laundry in a laundry mat for the rest of my fun filled day 

    Amazing but true fact, we left Dickinson North Dakota today and drove for 100 miles without seeing a gas station until we pulled into a town of 6 people that had a combined gas station (1 pump) diesel and premium only, grocery store and post office. What an utterly strange place to live out there- I don’t get it at all. 
    We rolled  through Sturgis and saw tens of thousands of bikers (not my thing but whatever) at their little rally. 
    Got to admit- I’m a little down right now. Miss the RV. We went on a couple five mile hikes and the badlands was amazing to me (wife and kids weren’t impressed) but not the same sense of nature as before. What was ok last week with a nice hotel for $63 a night feels pretty sucky this week with a shitty hotel for $110 a week. 
    Also, next week is supposed to be Yellowstone and the week after that glacier  and it’s just really expensive to stay there. 
    I got fired last week (the day before I was looking to quit) and haven’t been paid from my main job in 45 days and am almost out of money while just loading up the credit card debt. These are the times that try mans soul. Except nothing compared to how the men were tried back in Valley Forge, about who those words were penned.
    All that said I have all sorts of good things to look forward to I guess. Family is healthy. Relatively happy. Wife is doing a good job with school. Kids are doing really well at school. I’m getting more exercise than I’ve gotten in years, I should have some massive commission checks headed my way which would wipe out debt and put a couple coins in my pocket by end of September if I can hold on. 
    I have to think that there are better days ahead- but this thing is feeling pretty rough right now. 
    This week we have my sons birthday and he wants to go to the reptile zoo (largest of its kind in the world), we will go to Rushmore, and badlands national park and Custer (state?National?) park as well. Then figure out what comes next.

     

    Yeah, unfortunately hotel rooms spike in the Black Hills during the summer and especially during Sturgis.

    Glad you are getting out of Rapid City. Custer State Park is a pretty great spot, as mentioned, hike Black Elk Peak. It's a pretty great view from the top and it's relatively easy. Wind Cave National Park is right next to Custer State Park and also a really cool spot. Unfortunately the caves are closed. The Badlands are different in South Dakota compared to the ones you saw in North Dakota. Drive through Spearfish Canyon and go to Lead and see the Homestake Gold Mine and the Open Cut. 

  3. I haven't pulled the trigger on King Sue in awhile.  I generally think it's one of TG's weaker DIPAs.  Sosus (scaled up Pompeii) and Scorpius Morchella are probably my favorites.
    King Sue is either amazing, or it's not, and at the price point I'm not rolling the dice.  I will grab it on tap.

    Actually the first time I’ve had it. I like it but I do feel like they have better.
  4. 12 hours ago, Wulaw Horn said:

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    Me, the dog and the 5 members of the family sleeping in a rest stop outside Cleveland at 3:30 in the morning. Not what I thought would be in the likelihood for this morning when I woke up to go to the hoops hall of game with the boy. Skipped niagra falls. Making a 1600 mile run to teddy Roosevelt national park in western North Dakota. Not a lot of room left in the back of the truck. Looks like traditional tent camping and some time in extended stays on the agenda for the next 2 or 3 months. Then, I get to fly back to Connecticut (nearest RV place where we dumped it to get fixed) and drive to California probably to catch up with my family.
    That sounds fun in October. Worry about that when it gets there.
    And wife is not mad at me bc 1) she’s cool and 2) she was driving the truck and I was following her, so she picked the route and speed with which the RV bit the embankment.
    Did I mention the one good piece of news? Fully covered on the likely $25000 worth of repairs, absent a $1,000 deductible, so that’s pretty cool and got that going for me o guess.
    Oh yeah, put a tarp over the truck and it got shredded in half on the trip, and we caught the leading edge of tropical storm, so my stuff is a little wet right now, but hoping it doesn’t run into rain between here and the dakotas in probably 2 more days.
    Only 18 hours and 18 minutes of drive time left per the navigation equipment. Something like 1143 miles.

    You are going to be in the Black Hills during Sturgis Motorcycle Rally? Good fucking luck

  5. Headed to Southeast Montana/Yellowstone at the end of August. Wife got the travel bug after our Ireland trip was cancelled and since we are homeschooling the kids, figured we could make a week out of our trip. We've been talking about this trip for a few years now so I'm excited to finally make it happen. Got a campsite in Grant Village for our two nights there. 

  6. Expect South Dakota to become a COVID hotspot after Friday because our dumbass of a Governor said that social distancing will not be practiced when the occupant of the White House is at Mount Rushmore on Friday. I'm excited for my state to show how many dumbasses actually live here and I can't wait for them to give Trump a standing ovation after he claims he brought fireworks back to Mount Rushmore even though everyone in this state knows there hasn't been fireworks for 10 years due to the pine beetle infestation. But the citizens in this state will completely ignore that because Trump told them to . 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Can George Floyd’s family request a second autopsy? Or are they stuck with the Hennepin county ME’s conclusions? I understand that they have legal representation. 
    Interestingly enough, Noor was convicted of 3rd degree murder as well. 
     

    I am certain I know of a couple of cases where people where convicted of third degree murder and the victim had underlying health conditions. In those cases, the jurors felt that “but for” the defendants actions the victim would still be alive. So their conditions were not an impediment to the jury reaching a guilty verdict. 

    It looks like there will be an independent autopsy.

     

    https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/ex-nyc-medical-examiner-to-perform-autopsy-on-george-floyd/

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  8. Can’t wait for the first state to say they’re taking over the corona response in their state due to no confidence in the govt response 


    The states are basically on their own right now. I’m friend with a state epidemiologist and he said all the states have to come up with their own guidelines and how to handle it instead of getting some advice from the feds like in the past.
  9. 14 hours ago, bolverk said:

    No, you dumb, sunnuvabitch. I have no knowledge of the history there, but I can guarantee you that it had nothing to do with fears of granite stones catching on fire. If it had anything to do with fire, it probably had something to do with the fucking forest, you broken-brained boob.

    There was a pine-beetle infestation in the Black Hills right around that time, so there was quite a few dead trees. But, it was the granite stone for sure.

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