Day 5 - 11/30/2021

Day 5 - 11/30/2021

Today's plan was road trip. We finish the second leg of our trip - South Dakota - and start our journey back to Denver.

As planned, our day started early. By 7:30 in the morning we all were ready to go. First stop was Wind Cave National Park. The road to Wind Cave National Park was through the Castor State Park. We drove along Rte. 16A. It was one of the most pleasant and beautiful drive - the skies were clear, the roads were winding, and on the backdrop we had tall mountains of Black Hills.

After about 2 hours of drive we reached wind cave National Park. To my disappointment, the next cave tour was scheduled at 3 PM., so it was not possible for us to do the tour, but the ranger there informed us on wind cave.

Wind Cave is very large, still plenty to be explored, and very specious. For that reason, wind cave has its own air pressure system. When there is low pressure system on the surface, the high pressure in the cave forces air out of the cave. we did experience the air flow and it was pretty strong.

After wind Cave National Park we resumed our trip back to Denver. On our way back we stopped at Scotts Bluff National Park for Passport stamping and then resumed our journey back to Denver.

We reached Denver at about 7:30 PM so it was about 12 hours of total journey time. Vijeta quickly made "Dal-Khichadi" and we all just hit the sack. Tomorrow we pan to go visit Rocky Mtn. National Park and Estes Park. Very Excited for that.

Signing off for now.