August 15 – Mt Rushmore and Devils Tower
Another day of exciting site seeing and shenanigans! Today we drove across more of South Dakota.
We moved from the flat flat prairie to the Badlands.
We do like our Good Ol’ American National Monuments.
We saw a unicorn.
(okay, they’re goats. nevermind.)
Seriously, this was pretty cool though.
Not that we took it that seriously.
Right.
Onward, to Deadwood, South fucking Dakota!
We visited the cemetery where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane are buried.
We ate lunch outside the cemetery, and then drove on again to Devils Tower (or Bear Lodge, or Bear Tower, etc), in Wyoming.
LOLz!
This thing is just crazy.
Is it a giant tree trunk?
Is it the core of a volcano?
This country’s so big!
This rock is so big!
This tower-rock-tree-volcano is so big!
Seriously weird.
Fortunately, there were prairie dogs, although we were forbidden to feed them.
We were not forbidden to stalk them.
Okay, but seriously, it’s a really weird natural phenomenon.
In another set of bizarre and freakish coincidences, my brother and sister-in-law (along with her brother and sister-in-law) were in South Dakota and seeing Mt. Rushmore last night / this morning. So if you saw two couples, one of which was made up of a cute blond and a tall-ish guy who could pass for my brother, it was probably my brother.
Comment by Erin | August 17, 2009 |