Mount Rushmore

A brighter morning today, but the odd shower never far away. Our first destination was to revisit Mount Rushmore, the impressive National Memorial site. I appeared that everyone in the region was on the same mission and the tailback to the site entrance was one mile long! We chugged our way up the hill, feeling sorry for the caravan haulers who'd broken down, and eventually caught sight of the impressive heads, carved (by dynamite and bulldozer!) into the rock. Very impressive.

But soon, the rain showers came and the famous heads were shrouded in mist. We drove on another seventeen miles through the Black hills country to towards the Crazy Horse (work-in-progress) site. When finally completed, this may be even more impressive than Mount Rushmore, not least because it will have been crowd-funded.

With the day looking ominous, again, we decide not to drive up into the pinnacles, but headed back to Rapid City, to the AMC 7, to see the film 'Hereditery'. The cinema was probably the worst we have visited over here. Expensive tickets, no coffee and limited food options. We enquired about hot dogs and were told that they'd be ready in fifteen minutes. Thirty minutes later, they still weren't ready and it was hard to believe that only two had been placed on the hot plate! And the film? Good beginning and middle, poor ending!

And as for something musical to end on, I decided on "The Peter Gun Theme", as heard on the the Blues Bothers.