Today was a hot-one in South Dakota with temperatures hitting the mid-nineties here. We stocked-up early and set out under a bright blue sky for Mount Rushmore.....wow, its impressive!
This time round we had time on our side and could trek the Presidential Trail Loop at our leisure. (Apparently, the 'Four Presidents' should have been 'Six Sioux Indian Chiefs', but the sculptor made use of 'poetic licence'!)
We left the monument site mid-morning and drove to Custer State Park where we followed the Wildlife Loop Road, stopping-off for a picnic at a place that can only be described as 'Eden'.
During the journey we encountered herds of grazing buffalo, and wild donkeys! (The latter being a legacy of the early settlers who inadvertently released surplus beasts to fend for themselves!)
Leaving the Park, we took Highway 16A to the old Iron Mountain Road, a narrow twisting route into the heights of the Black Hills from which you are ultimately taken to and thrust out of a series of rock tunnels into stunning vistas of Mount Rushmore! Finally, we called into the Crazy Horse Centre, which was even more amazing this time around.
The vision and scale of this project and the single-mindedness of the sculptor who initiated it cannot be summed-up easily, if at all! If you get the chance, just go and see it! The Black Hills of South Dakota are truly amazing!! My track of the day is quite simply something memorable frrm Xirus-XM and its Tommy Roe, not Buddy Holly!.......
This time round we had time on our side and could trek the Presidential Trail Loop at our leisure. (Apparently, the 'Four Presidents' should have been 'Six Sioux Indian Chiefs', but the sculptor made use of 'poetic licence'!) 
We left the monument site mid-morning and drove to Custer State Park where we followed the Wildlife Loop Road, stopping-off for a picnic at a place that can only be described as 'Eden'.
During the journey we encountered herds of grazing buffalo, and wild donkeys! (The latter being a legacy of the early settlers who inadvertently released surplus beasts to fend for themselves!) 
Leaving the Park, we took Highway 16A to the old Iron Mountain Road, a narrow twisting route into the heights of the Black Hills from which you are ultimately taken to and thrust out of a series of rock tunnels into stunning vistas of Mount Rushmore! Finally, we called into the Crazy Horse Centre, which was even more amazing this time around. 
The vision and scale of this project and the single-mindedness of the sculptor who initiated it cannot be summed-up easily, if at all! If you get the chance, just go and see it! The Black Hills of South Dakota are truly amazing!! My track of the day is quite simply something memorable frrm Xirus-XM and its Tommy Roe, not Buddy Holly!.......
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