After our first camp, we headed west through some amazing open space. Fairly flat, lots of cows for Sharon to talk to, and plenty of billboards advertising the Wall Drug superstore that's only 600 miles away. I'm not kidding.
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| ... and in the distance... |
... and then our camera battery died. Which is very unfortunate, since we immediately started to encounter mountain goats on the road, the odd bison in the distance, and many a prairie dog in "Prairie Dog Town". Oh well, you can always google a picture of them if you really need to see them.
The other travesty is that we had no camera for our visit to the much-hyped Wall Drug. (I believe we passed at least 50 billboards promoting this place. Again, not kidding.) Ok, not so much a travesty. It's kind of like a faux Wild West Honest Ed's, but run mostly by old people who wouldn't accept Canadian pennies. We bought batteries, new tent pegs, 5 cent coffee and donuts. I decided the ninja stars would not be a good idea.
Across the street was modest burger bar, who kindly charged our camera battery while we ate. So here is the rest of our day:
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| the tacky town of Keystone, before Mount Rushmore |
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| Rushmore from the highway |
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| An "illegal" picture of Rushmore |
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| ...the helicopter that tried to catch us, and failed. |
We then ventured to the nearby Crazy Horse monument:
On our way out, we ended up passing Rushmore again, but from the rear. According to Lonely Planet, there is a naturally formed "5th president" somewhere in the pics below.
I thought I had seen it at the time, but it may have been sunstroke.
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| more Gorgeous George |
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| Logging... at a state park! |
And then we're off to Wyoming...
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