Tuesday, September 12th 2006, USA, MN
South Dakota
Wow! What a trip, 10 hours of beautiful sight seeing on our way to south Dakota. And Oh my god, what a drive! The wideness, and the fields all in different colors, breath taking.
After entering SD (South Dakota) it took us another 3 hours to get through. We spend the first night in Ocoama, near chamberlain, nice people, good breakfast and clean room and bed, which I find really important. It was the cutest little town!
From there moving further closer to the black hills, going for the badlands! Oh my god I never, ever saw anything more beautiful then that! It's a National Park, and I understand now, why this spot has been used for so many Hollywood movies. It's wild, rough, and so breath taking, so huge, wide and amazing, and I understand why they made it a protected area, you won't find a more gorgeous spot in the world in North America.
Containing the worldÂ’s richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets, and swift fox roam one of the largest, protected mixed-grass prairies in the United States.
After that we kept driving, towards mount Rushmore (the mountain with the president faces) and to Crazy Horse, driving through roughest areas and mountains, passing the most wonderful little towns, mostly western towns,awesomee to see that the wild west is still living here, although it's not as wild anymore. Bought two pairs of western boots, ofcourse I couldn't resist, me and my obsession for western boots. We kept going, up to Mount Rushmore we got caught in a thick fog, cloud what ya me call it, it was so thick, I swear, I stuck my hand out of the carwindow and it was gone!! We couldn't see shit! It was scary going up a mountain that high without seeing anything, but Michelle, my sweet lover and ourdesignatedd driver brought us up the mountain. But we couldn't see anything so she brought us down the mountain too, and it was funny, as soon as we got lower at the mountain the fog (cloud) was gone, and it was clear as a whistle unbelievable. We went to Crazy Horse Mountain that wasawesomee to see, an tribute to therightfull people of this country carved into a mountain. There is a lot of history behind this story If you want to find out about this, just google it. So we went to go see Mount Rushmore but we ended up to see Crazy Horse, Mount Rushmore was still covered in thick fog so since we couldn't see a rats ass we decided to find us a hotel room, and stay the night and try again the next day.
We ended up in Hill City, a one street little town with only 780 people living there! I love those little towns. We got us some order out pizza and headed for bed. The next morning we finally got to see Mount Rushmore it's huge and very impressive, granite portraits of Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln, we spent half a day there and used other half to get back home.Whichh didn't totally worked so we ended up in another hotel to spend the night.
Monday we got home around 5 pm while we started driving at around 9 am that was along day of driving we found that innerstate 90 seemed to take forever. But were here, save and sound. Back in Minnesota.
Love, Peace and Rock and Roll.
