Foothills Inn Boutique-Extended Stay Rapid City

... Mountain. It sounded interesting so I set off in that direction. When I got there, however, much to my dismay, there was no horse in sight. And certainly not a crazy one. In the way that Mount Rushmore did exactly what it says on the tin, this place did nothing of the sort. But then I started reading. And watching. And it became abundantly clear that it was more impressive than it's barber shop ...

... Fred was a amused by a local 'Chilli cookoff' poster. <br><br>For lunch we stopped at a little Wyoming town called Lusk. The restaurant was called 'Triangle 4 Cafe &amp; Steakhouse' and so far on our trip across the U.S they win the dubious award of 'Worst Service'. When we arrived the waitress told us to find a table, but it was a good 8-10 minutes before she came over with menu's &#8211; normally you can hardly sit down before you're handed a menu. Yet when a group of ...

... ranches periodically and we see cattle grazing here and there. Our rain has picked up again.<br><br>Now we can see Devil&#8217;s Tower off in the distance. What is Devil&#8217;s Tower? It is a huge monolith resembling a colossal (that means really, really big) stone tree stump rising 867 feet from its base. The 1.5 acres (not much bigger than the lot Kaylee and Garrett&#8217;s last house sat on) has a growth of sagebrush and grass and the almost ...

... through winding mountain roads, even that sight paled next to the unfolding panorama of nature: ponderosa pine forests climbed toward the sky, dotted by stretches of pasture carried us to our next stop ,the Crazy Horse Memorial.<br><br><br><br><br> The sculpture of the renowned chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux), was the personal project of a Polish ...

... saw amongst other things, Elk, Artic Wolves, Mountain Goat/Sheep, Black Bear etc. Driving through the bear enclosure, you saw the houses come caves that were 'owned' by each family ... honestly it was like driving through a Winnie-the-Pooh village. Amazing. As they don't have gates to separate the different wildlife, they use big cattle stops, (which I think could be electric as well). Anyway, I'm sure it's normally ...

... sucks... where's the goat?". Finally we got to some kind of parking area where it looked like a herd of buffalo out in the prairie in the distance but Bob insisted that they were horses (because Buffalo are bigger and have bigger chests), but I told him there were no wild horses roaming in the park and that they were buffalo (THEY WERE!) but he still doesn't believe me. It was getting dark and stormy by then, there was ...

... Some quite random, e.g. a rhino and some a bit more obvious involving pioneers and Native Indians. Two inparticular were incredibly striking and the reason for our return before leaving; the Bird Woman (who I believe was Sacagawea, a young Native Shoshone Indain who helped the Lewis and Clark Expidetion in their surveying of new lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific Coast and back.) and The Bozeman Scout, both powerful pieces of art. The snow had ...

Day 16: ABBY is 5 months old today!!!! Way to go Abby! In other events, we meandered from Douglas, WY to Rapid City, SD (via the Sand Hills of Nebraska) States: WY, NE (#15), and SD (#16) Miles: 425 (though we only made about 100 miles progress east) Highlights: chasing jackalopes in Douglas; Carhenge; Mount Rushmore Nat'l Park visits: Agate Fossil Beds Nat'l Monument; Scottsbluff Nat'l Monument; Chimney Rock Nat'l Historic Site; Mt Rushmore Nat'l Memorial (Paul also got 4 ...

... law going thru parliament which would legalise 10m illegals. The pizza was excellent and we managed to save half for tomorrow evening. Whilst we were out there must have been the mother of all thunderstorms (which we missed) as half an inch of rain fell in 20 minutes. The camp owner told me that our tent must be pretty good as the rain was so heavy. Perfect timing we thought. Great nights sleep for the Top One and a poor one for Munchkin.

... wood I found this plae mentioned but until today when I reviewed my log book I had forgotten that I had been there. <br> Next I got a partial fillup of gas because I found the price in this outying area had jumped up like it usually did away from the city. I had a 20 gallon tank and usually got between 15 and 18 miles per gallon so had a range of about 300 to 350 miles and I always tried to plan my route so I would hit and ...