Badlands National Park and other sundry stiff

more badlands areas
beautiful open terrain
blue skies everywhere.

Below is some video of the area

leaving Custer SD

Local landscape so that he can have space and house ...
Typcial Badlands shot
More money shots
Some more shots

Passing 2,999 miles for the trip in SD and about to hit 3,000 .... another milestone

Badlands National Park

a truly amazing place .... other world type stuff, redolent of Mars
See what I mean?

View of the badlands .... from different angles
Babes, at viewing point

Leaving Custer, SD for Beloit, WI

Frost ..... what teh f*&^ is going on here folks?
Pretty, pretty cold, as Larry David would say ;-)
Scraping ice ... who would thunk !!!
Behold the Black Hills of South Dakota

Crazy Horse, the movie

To save time, this is an inkling of what the movie is about ...

Crazy Horse park

The gates at Crazy Horse park
The 50th anniversary of work starting on the Crazy Horse memorial, with the head finished.
a native tent, inside the museum, at the crazy horse site
Beads at the gift shop

Mt Rushmore as well as Crazy Horse Memorial, in SD

The 4 boys ...
Nikki
Tickling George's chinny chin chin
Crazy horse ( 4 times larger than Mt Rushmore)

"I'm friggin freezin .... "

Mt Rushmore .. more ....

The view from the parking lot at Mt Rushmore, of the South Dakota countryside
The pathway up to the monument
Paul, Ringo, John and George
Whoops, wrong direction ... gps on finger was slightly out of whack

Babes, and myself, in photo taken by crazy lady

Mt Rushmore

Some video from our arrival at Mt Rushmore, in SD.

from Lander, WY to Custer SD

We overnighted in Lander WY (middle of nowhere, but very nice)
Saw some nice barns
Went to Mt Rushmore
View from Mt Rushmore parking lot ... very impressive

The entrance to Mt Rushmore is very grand, as befitting such a monument

Still in WY

Onward and upward in WY
The cows marching toward feeding, in perfect unison ....
mountains in the distance
oh no ... weather system about to arrive

Middle of Nowhere, WY

Racing a train !!!
Can you spare a tire buddy !!!
Local church
Eco friendly green powered ranch
Ranch with big barn !!!

friendly faces while going thru WY

some of the very cute locals
the humorous locals
Brokeback Mountain, WY
the length of roads here, is just beyond imagination

oops .... fuel light is on .... less than 3 gallons now .... and at 18mpg, we need to find a gas station pronto !!!