When I was driving through Custer State Park in South Dakota I saw a herd of wild buffalo.

When I was driving through Bear Country in South Dakota, the bears were holding up traffic at a gate leading into their section of the park by crossing to and fro in front of the vehicles acting like sentries.

It amazes me that many people do not know how to drive around a circle or a round about if you'd rather call it that. Everyday when I am out driving I see people either stopping at a yeild sign even when there isn't any traffic coming or just going when there is traffic as if they have the right of way.

What is it with the warm weather? All the crazy driver's are coming out. While driving yesterday I got stuck behind someone going 30-35 miles per hour in a 55 mile speed zone and almost missed being able to get off the highway at the exit I needed to take.

I miss going on road trips with my mom and my son. We were taking two to three week vacations before I was laid-off. We would head out west to visit family and stop other places also. We drove as far west as Custer, South Dakota. It was driving through Bear Country, near Rapid City, S.D., that I found out even an automatic transmission van will roll backwards on a steep hill.

My mom has a '64 Studibaker that she takes out for a drive around town for the maintenance and I go along for the ride. We were driving around today and we were stopped by three turkeys standing in the middle of the street. One of the turkeys kept fluffing their feathers and the three of them refused to get out of the way. I even yelled out the window at them and mom honked the horn. That only made them gobble at us. The turkeys finally moved out of the way so we could drive by after about five minutes.