Shadehill Recreation Area South Dakota

August 4, 2019August 10, 2019 Kathleen Ennen

AUG 3, 2019 – Shadehill, SD

Onto a SD recreation site – Shadehill which is alongside a dam created reservoir. There are some trees but we didn’t get one so we used the AC at night. Seems to work well and is effective in cooling things down from the upper 80s to low 70s for sleeping. We don’t run it during the day, but start it in the early evening to cool everything down for the night.

AUG 4, 2019 – Shadehill, SD

It’s a 3-night stop here which is nice since we’ve been less than 3 nights since leaving Yellowstone. On Day 2 we walked to the area with a couple of small beaches for swimming access. We took a little dunk just to cool off. At an overlook we learned that there was a town buried when the dam was completed. So weird to think there’s a small community of houses somewhere down there under a hundred feet of water or so.

2 thoughts on “Shadehill Recreation Area South Dakota”

Peter August 11, 2019

K,
Sorry that we will miss the Charlevoix stop. We will be with Phi and Mary this week and will be on the way home when they go up to meet you.
Looking forward to October.
Peter and Darlene
1. admin August 14, 2019
  
  Good to know someone is looking at the posts on this site!!!
  See you in October!!

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We have traveled over the years and retired in 2017, when we started on a nine month long adventure departing in December 2017. In the past we’ve traveled to Sri Lanka, Africa (several times), Turkey, and made a number of trips to Europe, and St Lucia. Our 2015 trip to Turkey, took nearly 3 weeks to explore Istanbul, Cappadocia and the areas in proximity to Izmir.

This is a chronicle of our travels, past and present. We love to travel by trains, planes, ships, and cars – and love sailing whenever and wherever we can.

We retired from the US General Services Administration, the Federal Government’s landlord! Thom worked at planning and large scale program management of numerous projects and Kathleen, a registered professional civil engineer, was a project manager for many infrastructure and building renovation projects, including both design and construction aspects, in New England, Florida and the metro DC area. We lived in Washington DC for 12 years and upon retirement sold the house, putting a few things in a 5’x5’ storage unit and started traveling.

On return to the US in September 2018, after traveling to 21 countries, we bought a Class C RV – 2019 Thor Freedom Elite 24FE. We enjoyed our week long camping trip in New Zealand in a small converted van with few amenities, so this seemed liked a good way to tour the US. We hope to visit family along the way and as many US National Parks as possible.

UPDATE – the Covid pandemic made travel more difficult for us. We were abroad for several months when the pandemic started and returned to the US in July 2020. After several months in the RV to visit Utah and Albuquerque NM, we moved east, bought a house on the Northern Neck of Virginia, and sold the RV. For 2021 and 2022 we tended to our new house and cottage, gardens and various boats including a 18’ 1977 Marshall Sanderling catboat and a 25’ Steiger Craft Chesapeake fishing boat, and kayaks and a canoe. Hopefully travel will start again one day!!

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