We hitched up and rolled out fairly early this morning. I wanted to go to the Crazy Horse Memorial and Native American Museum so we made a very round about route to Rapid City via Custer and points northwest.
The monument is mind boggling. It's still a work in progress. Take the time to look it up... www.crazyhorsememorial.org
To give you an idea of size, the hole you see here is ten stories high.
When completed, the Crazy Horse mountain carving will be 641 feet long by 563 feet high. Crazy Horse's completed head is 87 feet 6 inches high. The horse's head will be 219 feet high.
The museum is incredible too. A high class tribute to the Native Americans. The family that runs this place is doing an amazing job of educating people and assisting with preserving the culture of the Native American peoples.
We spent three hours at the memorial and we still only saw a fraction of what there was to see. Unfortunately, the Boys were waiting on us and we needed to hit the road and make it to Badlands National Park before dark.
The drive into the park was pretty cool. I wanted to take advantage of the free primitive camping the park offered, so we had to drive 12 miles back a dirt road to access the campground. No worries though - the views were incredible...
...and the wildlife entertained all of us... ;)
Once it was dark, we had to be careful when letting the Boys out to potty. Yep, that's one of about a dozen buffalo that was about 20 feet from our door when we first opened it. Yikes! Hee heee heee...I REALLY like it here. :)
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