Mt. Rushmore's Washington Inn & Suites Keystone

... He gave me some strong antibiotics so I hope to be back to full health in time for tea and crumpets on the front lawn.<br><br>With a new found respect for life coursing through my veins, I headed to Mount Rushmore to see four giant faces in a row. And I wasn't disappointed. There were four of them. They were giant. And strike me down if they weren't in a row. <br><br>Just down the road was Crazy ...

... I have to say that although the sculptures were impressive, they were nowhere as big as I was expecting. Took the obligatory photos, and walked some of the way around the very pristine paths that went right to the edge of the rock face with the<br>Presidents above. In case you're wondering the 4 presidents in the sculpture are: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt &amp; Thomas Jefferson. On the way out we asked some other tourists to take our photo as a ...

... him. Mark waited at the bottom to watch. Down we went. Anthony zipped along ahead, Andrew followed and I came tried to keep up. Andrew did a great job. That was alot of fun. When we finished that we decided to give Anthony his early birthday gift from Andrew. Andrew gave Anthony a ride on the helicopter. Actually both boys went. That was so exciting to see Andrew be that happy and Anthony enjoying a special time with his brother. They flew up and over Mt Rushmore and ...

... in altitude. CCC crews in the 30s created the highway and blasted rock archways that framed Mt. Rushmore as you went through. Beautiful pine forests and valley vistas greeted us around many curves &#8211; fantastic even in the rain!<br><br>A visit to the Black Hills isn&#8217;t complete without a visit to its major tourist attraction &#8211; Mt. Rushmore. We are all familiar with it from schoolbooks and Hollywood movies, but that doesn ...

... Trail" that passes a recreated Lakota indian village, meanders right beneath the scree of debris from the construction and returns through pine woods. We are soon done with Mt. Rushmore, and are anxious to get on our way. We take a minor road through the beautiful Black Hills (which are green) to the famous old wild west city of Deadwood The entire city of Deadwood is a national historic landmark. It has been ...

... is - In most of the photos and Alfred Hitchcock action sequences that involve the faces, you don't really get a sense of their true location.  I had always thought that the monument was carved into more of a butte that rose from relatively level ground - not so.  This thing is really up there, which makes the achievement that much more impressive.

... park in Rapid City. It's on the skyline of the city, and it's 7 life-size concrete dinosaurs. It lent itself to some fun photo ops. It was free, and hey, I mean it is in the National Register of Historic Places. And we only found it because we started looking at all the tourism brochures at rest stops, so this is a travel ...

... I arrived at the parking lot and walked up to the visitor center I realized that Alfred Hitchcock took a lot of liberties in the scenes that were supposedly at Rushmore in North by Northwest. No way you could walk up there or climb around it. I got a cup of tea and savored the moment, non-chalantly glancing out the window and oh yes there is the big scuplture of the presidents. Here is a link to the park ...

... the Cliff Shelf Nature Trail a little further on. I stopped a while at the visitor center then onto the Gullies Overlook and the Pinnacles. What a day. I even saw a veritical rainbow that went straight up in the distance. <br> I was back to civilization when I reached Grand Rapids, stopping at the Ruchmore Mall where I got a late snack and picked up a book, groceries at the Kmart-supplies for the next few days as I would be ...