We had a looong day, 10 hours of sightseeing with Gary & Deb Pearce who we were with at the Escapade last week. They arrived at Hart Ranch CG about 6 miles from us yesterday. We travelled 80 miles to a new National Park, a 1960's cold war nuclear Minuteman Missile underground launch control center which controlled 10 missiles. A retired Air Force "missilleer" who was stationed in a launch control center described what life was like and what his responsibilities were. We then travelled 6 miles to a Minuteman II missile silo. This site tour was conducted by.....Egor, a young Russian here for the summer. There's a chance the missile and silo he was working at was aimed at his parents!
After this we stopped at Wall Drug Store for a few minutes on our way to the Badlands. We spent a couple hours driving through the Badlands and had a picnic lunch before taking a scenic drive back to Rapid City.
