Rapid City Days Inn

... 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 ...

... there the first time today and stopped at Peggy's Home Cookin' for some country fried chicken with gravy and a buffalo sirloin. Both were awesome! Cheers to Peggy and her all female staff.<br><br>Once our bellies were full and we put on some additional layers (and sneakers) we went back to Mt Rushmore Park to see the night show. It started with the story of the making of Mt Rushmore and then into why ...

... Horse Monument while at the Rushmore Monument I felt out-of-place. Take a look at the photos and you'll see what I mean. <br><br>Touring, I visited two places of significance: DeadWood - the cowboy town which has not changed, in the movies and books Deadwood is described as having a glut of hotels, bars and gambling establishments. Today what did I see? hotels, bars and casinos - seems the more ...

... strategy obviously worked because we went to Wall Drugs after we left the Badlands to get some lunch. It was a big tourist trap with all sorts of western style memorabilia. Isabel got a pair of moccasins there (after all, we are tourists) and I bought some really good dark chocolate fudge. After Wall, we drove on to Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park. There's this place called the Cosmos Mystery Area on the way to Rushmore ...

Feeling better today; but not great. Nasty sinus infection. Hit Badlands National Park and saw my first snow. Made it into the hotel and went to Mt Rushmore. No one was there and I had the place to myself. Still wiped out and went to bed as soon as I got back. Will post photos when I get to a better internet connection.

We stopped by Mount Rushmore. It was a lot smaller than I had expected, not to mention way out of the way. I think we had more fun watching the chipmunks though, lol! On the way we hit a bit of a traffic jam as a herd of bison decided to cross the road. Mmm Speakin of bison they make GoOd Jerky! We tried to get into Crazy horse on the way but we would have had to pay. urns out a single family owns the mountain, our parks pass did not work there.

MJ up at 7am after an ok night with a few interruptions, the largest being the thunderstorm. Sat at a picnic table and wrote up the blog whilst the sun and the heat of that day rose. Forgot to mention that as we set the tent up yesterday two female deer came through with two young about 10 yards from where we were. They knew we were there but seemed unconcerned, then a little later a female turkey came along. The camp site is next to a ...

... Apparently in the 1.5 hours since the wallet left the roof of the van it took a pretty decent beating from the other vehicles on the road specifically 18 wheelers. All is well though we have all the cards broken or not. Go back have breakfast. Call the credit card companies and order new cards (I think we pick them up in Seattle). So the rest of the day and everyday up to this point I want to know what exactly are the ...

... of this trip. I was really taken by surprise by the landforms. When you are approaching mountains you usually see them in the distance and you adjust to their size as you get closer, but here the approach was basically a flat plain and when you reach the edge of the badlands they drop away before you suddenly in all their fantastic eroded shapes. Next stop was the Windows Overlook where I hiked the Door Trail, then I ...