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... s favourite place for breakfast in America is Denny's and we knew last night that we were staying near one. So we 'slammed it up' at 8.30 and were on the road for 9.30. We would have to do about 400 miles today, in a two day drive to Denver and felt pretty good about it. We had the radio on all the way and Storm Warning came on twice! We visited the Little ...
Day 5: Chasing the Sunset
... facial hair decision making skills, is currently raising 2-3 young children and is wearing at least one article of clothing emblazoned with the "John Deere" logo. What? Prove me wrong!
Continuing Northward passing into South Dakota, two things about the state’s rest stops were immediately unique: first, they were all still closed for “the season” and second, all possess a large, concrete teepee. ...
Badlands + Mt Rushmore + Crazy Horse = good times
... us that we would be stopping again at somewhere quite unique. And boy was it?! It's a town called Wall and it is something straight out of an old Western. I expected John Wayne to come riding around the corner on his horse. There was one main street and all the buildings were wooden with proper old facades.. It was pretty easy to imagine the big tubs of water outside the stores where men would tie up their horses while they went in to ...
Day 68
... who, with his wife to be, scouted the area for a suitable spot in 1947. He refused government help because he didn't want them to take over and set rules and possibly abandon the project because of expense. He worked on it alone until some of his 10 kids were able to help. He has hired help as donations allowed but he spent the rest of his life on it. When we were here in 1998 the face was just completed and not much else. Today ...
Day 5
... say holy ****!!!! Weather changed at that time and started to rain. It was getting later so we decided to head back. Heading back was at least 50 miles by now! Stopped in a little town called Keystone had dinner in the Ruby House...we all ate buffalo for dinner. It was good tender but a little chewy! Sat by the campfire rest of the evening and enjoyed the quiet. ...


