Deadwood, South Dakota – final home of Western legends Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. It's a busy little city in the center of a ravine. Lots of bars and gambling and fake hookers peering over the street. I had fun walking through it one evening, though it would have been more fun if someone else was with me.

Sturgis was the next quick stop on my trip. I arrived exactly one month too early to witness the peaceful town of 9,000 swell to more than half a million during bike week.

In Rapid City, I checked out Chapel in the Hills, an exact replica of a 12th century Norwegian church that was built with money from a Lutheran donor. There is a prayer walk behind the church with stone statues and
encouraging sayings. I've had better success finding God in back
alleys, but that's ok.