Day 16 of our #BoxsterRoadTrip started with a beautiful sunrise as we left Casper Wyoming and headed northeast toward South Dakota. We broke our tradition and did about 55 miles on an Interstate (I-25). The best part of that drive was that the speed limit was 80 and Jo was driving. Yahoo! It didn’t take long for the sun to rise, the temperature to hit 70, the top to come down and for us to leave Wyoming and enter the deep black hills and badlands of South Dakota.
The first stop was at the Crazy Horse Memorial, which is privately run (not a US Park) and is beyond impressive. The work on this memorial has been going on since 1923 and there is still a long way to go, as you can tell by the pictures. The picture on the left is how it is today. The picture on the right is how it will look, superimposed (by creative Steve) and the far right shows a drawing over the memorial as it is today. You can see that this is still a work in progress. And most of the work is done by blasting! Amazing.
We stopped in Hill City, SD for lunch and ate at a “local” place called Hill City Café. Jo had their soup and salad bar and everything was homemade. Steve had his first buffalo burger (wait, there are no buffalos in the US, so it must have been a bison burger!).
Our next stop was Mount Rushmore, which is a National Park. This is also an awesome sight and there were far more tourists here than at the Crazy Horse Memorial. Again, this was mostly done by blasting but, since it had federal funding, it was done in significantly less time. The other major point to consider is that the entire Mount Rushmore sculpture can fit into just Crazy Horse’s flowing hair.
We are spending the night at a lovely B&B called Peregrine Point Bed and Breakfast. And, as we say . . .
The journey continues . . .
You have done such a great job finding such interesting things/people along the way!! After all the upfront anticipation, hard to believe you’re 20% thru this foray!! Bill