Monday--let the camping begin!

Monday...
We stopped at a grocery store in Rapid City and loaded up on supplies for the second phase of our trip….camping! On the plus side, you can make whatever food you want. On the downside, the logistics of living out of the car get a little more complicated once you add in the camping. We stopped at a KOA Kampground at around 6:00. When Tim asked the guy for a shady site, he laughed as if we were trying to be funny. I think when most of us think of campgrounds we envision trees and some privacy. Not at the Rapid City KOA, which was kind of a big field with roads running through it. Once the sun went down it was fine, but up until that point we felt like we were putting up a tent and getting dinner ready on the surface of the sun. We cooked a nice dinner of chicken kabobs and hung out for a while before going to bed. We had been worried about being able to sleep in the tent, especially since the “Kampground” was located next to the highway, but we were both so exhausted that we fell right to sleep. Until…