adventure – tierneycreates

The week of July 22 – 25, 2025 we went on an ambitious Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska road trip to the following events/landmarks:

Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Keystone, South Dakota to see the Mount Rushmore National Monument
Black Hills of South Dakota to see the Crazy Horse Memorial in progress
Badlands National Park in South Dakota
Wind Caves National Park in South Dakota
Alliance, Nebraska (where we stopped at Carhenge, see the post Carhenge )

I will blog about Frontier Days, Mount Rushmore, Wind Caves and Badlands National Parks, the Crazy Horse Memorial in separate posts, but for this post I will share some photos from our wander around downtown Rapid City, South Dakota.

Before heading to Wind Cave National Park and Badlands National Park, we stopped for a break in downtown Rapid City. It was my kind of place as it had a USED BOOKSTORE and a QUILT SHOP!

AGAIN BOOKS & BAZAAR

At Again Books & Bazaar I bought some used CDs (a future post about how I’ve rediscovered our stereo and CD player) and enjoyed looking at their large collection of used books.

QUILT CONNECTION, ETC.

What a lovely surprise to find Quilt Connection, Etc. quilt shop in downtown Rapid City! The staff was welcoming, helpful and friendly and they had a wonderful fabric selection.

If that wasn’t enough to be a friendly quilt shop with a lovely fabric selection, they had a surprise area downstairs…

That had this rack…

And if that wasn’t enough downstairs also had this magical tub…

I am always up to a challenge so I immediately worked on how many fabric scraps I could shove into the bag!

I made my way back up the stairs to see John patiently waiting in “The Husband Seating Area”:

They had many quilts on display and I really liked this Mount Rushmore quilt and this teal quilt which makes me thing of the teal quilts that Kate @talltalesfromchiconia coordinates each year for annual the Ovarian Cancer fundraiser.

But the quilt that really made me smile was this “Mrs. Bobbins” quilt with very humorous panels that only a quilter or someone who lives with a quilter can related to:

So what did I buy at the quilt shop? Well I got a $5 fill a bag, bag of fabric scraps stuffed to the max; and this Riley Blake National Parks Map panel: