Stop 46: Custer, SD
Today was the long anticipated intersection of my sister Stacy and her husband Jack's Eastbound trip with our Westbound trip. They're going to travel the US for a year and left their home near Portland about a month ago ( follow their journey at jackstacy.blogspot.com).
Here's a picture of the 4 of us:
Today's 116 mile trip followed SD-44 through the Buffalo Gap National Grassland South of Badlands National Park. Beautiful country and we almost had the road to ourselves.
The Sturgis motorcycle rally doesn't start until August 5th but the bikers are out in force.
Along SD-44:
Lining the streets in Hill City:
We arrived at the RV park first and found that the pull-through sites that they had reserved for us were right on the highway, dusty and treeless. I made an executive decision and had us moved to a pair of back-in sites down in the woods. Backing in was an unwelcome challenge for both trailers but we got it done.
As soon as we were set up and had caught up a little, we took off for some sight seeing. First stop was the Crazy Horse Memorial. We were last there in 2007 and we honestly didn't notice much progress.
The bikers were out in force there as well.
The Memorial. That's a bulldozer on the end of what will be an outstretched arm:
A model of what the Memorial will look like:
Another model of the Memorial and its surroundings
(I wanted Kristen to loom like Godzilla but no deal):
Next stop, Mount Rushmore:
Here's the 4 of us at Mount Rushmore:
Finally, the 2 trailers:
-J-
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