The morning after our nightly adventures in Deadwood we were a little slow to get up, but eventually we managed to drag ourselves to a local diner and get some breakfast. The plans for what we expected to be a busy days were layed down and we got ready for the last day of national monuments and parks for a while.
We started of by driving down to Mt. Rushmore, the famous faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln carved into the mountain at Keystone. As famous as the monument is we pretty much knew what to expect, but we were not disappointed. It was another example of how everything is bigger in the United States. And we could see that they have spared some room for when Arnold is elected president in a couple of years.
From Mt. Rushmore we took the long way round (thank you GPS) to the Crazy Horse Monument. Even though we felt ripped off at the gate ($27 to get in - only $10 at Mt. Rushmore) it was a pretty cool monument. I saw it when I was in the states in 2000 - and the progress of what will become the largest monument in the world is pretty slow. At least they are more or less done with his face...
Then we were of to what was expected to be the highlight of the day - Badlands. Bruce Springsteen was playing on the radio as we entered one of the strangest pieces of nature I have ever seen. Although much of the national park is grassland - some of it looks as though it is from another world. Strange rock formations and signs with rattlesnake warnings gave the whole area a feel of being outerworldly and dangerous. We did get through it unharmed though - and even got to eat Bison Burgers for lunch (did not taste much different than regular burgers).
We had planned to drive on like crazy to get as close to Minnesota as possible... that didn't work out. I guess a combination of last night and all the experiences of the day led us to fall asleep pretty early. We crashed down in the small town of Kadoka, South Dakota - and we were pretty happy with that...
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