Jewel cave

Jewel Cave Groupy

It’s been a long time that I have written something, just out of laziness. Never the less, now I am back at top speed, will be posting at least 2 articles. In this post, I am going to take you to a cave filled with all the jewels you want.

Our last day @ South Dakota was the most adventurous day of the trip. Last but the best. It started as usual-with late comers joining the club. We had plans of only watching Jewel Cave National Monument and then returning home as one of our crew member had a flight back so we wanted to come back on time. Once we reached cave, we had to wait until the tour started. Note that tours run as per a schedule. So plan accordingly. Authorities took us to a complete dark cave with no lights as they wanted to make it old school. This tour was named as Lantern Tour as we had to carry Lanterns in our hand inside the cave. Thank God we had Led lanterns among with the old gas lanterns.

Outside Jewel Cave

Cave had different kinds of paths which were known as “Fat man’s misery”- A thin area from where, its difficult for fat people to go through, then there was a “long man’s misery”- A place where you have to duck and pass. Overall it was a good experience, actually the best tour of the trip. It can be considered as the desert of our trip, sweet in the last.

As soon as we started heading back home, we started suffering from Diabetes in other words- our adventure doubled. Heaviest rain, I ever saw in lifetime started hitting us badly. It was such a heavy thunderstorm that nothing was visible. Viper was running at top speed, still it was so difficult to drive that I had to pull up car on side. Then I checked one more setting of wiper, which increased its speed. We waited for some time to allow the storm to lower down a bit and then again started our way back.

Great Indian Food

The crew wanted to have Indian food, so we entered in Rapid City, had dinner and then finally started going back. Thunderstorm was still there, it actually accompanied us on the way back to Minnesota. There was one more new thing I learned, when we were passing from cities, there were alarms buzzing, since it was the first time for us to listen to such kind of warnings, we were quite confused with it. Then we checked our mobiles and got to know that there was a Tornado waiting for us, also the radios, warning started saying that take cover now. Since we were late and in the middle of highway, we stopped under a bridge. There was one more car ahead of us, taking shelter. We asked them about the status and were surprised to know that Tornado was right in front of us.

We stayed under the bridge for some time and then continued our journey. Next we stopped for fueling and to get latest update on the current situation. It seems that Tornado wasn’t an issue now, so we took a sigh of relief and next directly stopped in Minnesota-Home Sweet Home.