Mount Rushmore

Our long trip across the U.S. let us make a fun stop at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota... it was good to have a stop like that before the rest of South Dakota, because let me tell you the rest of that state is a whole lot of NOTHING! Just miles and miles of prairie. Not much to say about Mount Rushmore itself, I did learn that Pres Lincoln was orignally supposed to be on the LEFT of Pres Washington, but the rock was too unstable and he kept falling apart. AND the artist that designed the monument was LDS, like me. :)

Our other South Dakota stop was in Wall, the direct result of a deluge of media. Starting about 30 miles before Wall, SD there were little billboards every mile or so reading: Fresh Pie; Homemade Ice Cream; Free Ice Water; 5 cent Coffee; etc. all at Wall Drug. The media did it's job and we made a fun stop at Wall Drug... where there was not a single Pharmacist on duty, just one big tourist trap. Got to ride a jackelope and a bucking bronco though.