We're on Holiday
I am going to try to catch this blog up to today's events. We've been having a great time. On Monday morning we went to Mt. Rushmore - I have tried to up load pics but the signal here is very weak. Once I have a good strong connection, I will try again. Though we've all seen pictures and films depicting the mountain, it is still startling and exciting to see it in real life. The faces are carved into a granite mountain in the Black Hills. The sculture is almost white compared to the rest of the stone. Amazing, really.
We then took a long drive thru the Black Hills. Beautiful! And the Mazda is more than happy to sail around the hairpin curves. There were several tunnels on this drive - all were one lane tunnels, very narrow. You had to come around the curve and honk before you entered the tunnel. Again, we have pics, but...
We then went to the Crazy Horse Monument. Such conflict - but, once the mountain is finished, it will be spectacular. All the faces of Rushmore could fit in the face of Crazy Horse.
Because we had only visited the Badlands briefly, we went back to finish the drive - again I cannot describe the desolate beauty.
Today, we drove to Sturgis (of course) then to Devil's Tower. We actually hiked completely around the base. Beautiful. We drove on to Buffalo, WY then crossed the BigHorn Mountains. Wyoming is an amazing place - we saw terrain I've never seen anywhere else, or at least not on such a large scale. Snow-capped mountains, deep canyons with sheer cliffs, tall badland dunes, grasslands as far as the eye can see...
We ended the day in Cody, Wy just outside Yellowstone. For Matt's B-day, we ate at the Irma Hotel. This hotel was built by Buffalo Bill (he paid to have it constructed) and named it after his daughter. Inside there is a huge cherrywood bar given to Buffalo Bill by Queen Victoria of England. After dinner, we walked around and Matt took photos. I went into a little coffee shop to get us something warm to drink (it's a little chilly). In the course of visiting with the girls there (imagine me conversing with strangers), I mentioned it was Matt's B-day. They asked if I would give him a brownie from them as a gift. Sweet, huh!
BTW - we received a few voicemails wishing Matt a happy birthday but not until after 10 this evening. Apparently, Wyoming has one cell tower in the entire state and we were nowhere close to it at any point today. He wants me to say thank you for calling!
We then took a long drive thru the Black Hills. Beautiful! And the Mazda is more than happy to sail around the hairpin curves. There were several tunnels on this drive - all were one lane tunnels, very narrow. You had to come around the curve and honk before you entered the tunnel. Again, we have pics, but...
We then went to the Crazy Horse Monument. Such conflict - but, once the mountain is finished, it will be spectacular. All the faces of Rushmore could fit in the face of Crazy Horse.
Because we had only visited the Badlands briefly, we went back to finish the drive - again I cannot describe the desolate beauty.
Today, we drove to Sturgis (of course) then to Devil's Tower. We actually hiked completely around the base. Beautiful. We drove on to Buffalo, WY then crossed the BigHorn Mountains. Wyoming is an amazing place - we saw terrain I've never seen anywhere else, or at least not on such a large scale. Snow-capped mountains, deep canyons with sheer cliffs, tall badland dunes, grasslands as far as the eye can see...
We ended the day in Cody, Wy just outside Yellowstone. For Matt's B-day, we ate at the Irma Hotel. This hotel was built by Buffalo Bill (he paid to have it constructed) and named it after his daughter. Inside there is a huge cherrywood bar given to Buffalo Bill by Queen Victoria of England. After dinner, we walked around and Matt took photos. I went into a little coffee shop to get us something warm to drink (it's a little chilly). In the course of visiting with the girls there (imagine me conversing with strangers), I mentioned it was Matt's B-day. They asked if I would give him a brownie from them as a gift. Sweet, huh!
BTW - we received a few voicemails wishing Matt a happy birthday but not until after 10 this evening. Apparently, Wyoming has one cell tower in the entire state and we were nowhere close to it at any point today. He wants me to say thank you for calling!
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