We were quite excited about our next week-long stay in Deadwood, South Dakota. Deadwood is an old-west town in the gorgeous Black Hills, very near Mount Rushmore.

At some point while driving in from Wyoming the landscape became lush and mountainous, and we found ourselves on a one-lane road paralleling an idyllic river. We started to become even more excited about the place. There’s nothing we like more than going for a run in a beautiful spot like this.

Unfortunately, fate would dictate that we only spend a single, frustrating night in Deadwood.

We’re working part-time during this trip, so a reasonably stable internet connection is a must-have for us. But when we arrived at our Airbnb in Deadwood there were no instructions for joining the Wifi. In fact, there weren’t even any available Wifi networks to join.

We messaged the host about this who responded with something like “yeah, the internet is pretty bad, try standing out near the garage.”, which we briefly considered given Apple’s humble beginnings.

To make a long story short, we ended up deciding to book it to Omaha the next day instead, which was the nearest place we were certain we could find a coworking space if necessary. It was particularly important that we had good internet this week because Daniel was starting a new job.

Unfortunately, we didn’t even manage to make it to Mount Rushmore, let alone anywhere else in the area. We left first thing in the morning, briefly stopping only for Badlands National Park along the way.