Mount Rushmore

Thursday, July 17

We entered South Dakota today and drove up to see Mt. Rushmore. Neither of us had ever been there, and wondered if it really existed outside of photographs. Well, it does. And it's quite a humbling sight to behold. Those four great stone faces look out on some very rugged country, that being the Black Hills, and as you look up at them and take in their magnitude, you can't help but wonder how such work was done. Well, 90-percent of it was done with dynamite, we're told. And finished off with small jackhammers. Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt and old Abe. A pretty good group of guys to represent us on a mountaintop.We lost the Krupps at Rapid City and we haven't connected back up with them. It may be the end of the gruesome foursome. We did pretty well to stay together as long as we did! Tonight we're at a small campground in a small South Dakota prairie town called Kadoka "Gateway to the Badlands". Pressing on toward home tomorrow - no more sights to be seen other than the miles of Interstate we'll be slogging along.