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Moto Trip 2009

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August 31, 2009

Some of the stuff that will make the trip. A nice exercise in being truly minimalist...well I have still managed to pack a bunch of stuff :)

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Mount Rushmore

September 28, 2009

The roads that lead to Mount Rushmore....more than one way to get there. As Yogi Berra would have said, if you come to the fork in the road, take it. For everyone who has had a good laugh at his malapropisms, you should know that when he made the famous quote, the situation was that he was giving directions to get to get to his home in NJ and what he meant was that both sides of fork in the road actually lead to his house, hence the 'take the fork'. Guess being slightly less articulate has its downside :) 87 is Iron Mountain hwy, all you bikers out there, this is one of the coolest rides that I did on the trip. In the far distance, where the tree lines meet above the road is actually the monument...zoomed in shot below Nice road eh? It is on roads such as this that I missed my R1...hardly any traffic, a little narrow, road surface okay-ish Really nice details.....to give you some idea of size, each eye is about 11 feet across

South Dakota!!

September 26, 2009

After Rocky Mountain, I stayed one night in the small town called Cheyenne, WY...nothing to report from there, except maybe...the lady at the front desk of the hotel that I stayed at had never been north of the hotel. Now, this is interesting only because the town was all of 3 exits! The next morning I headed out towards Custer City in SD. Custer is kind of central to all the attractions in that part of SD (Crazy Horse monument, Mount Rushmore, a couple of caves and a few fabulous ride) I made Custer City my base for the next couple of days since there was plenty to see and rides to be done. 1st stop: Wind Caves...specialty/uniqueness is that it accounts for about 95% of all 'box work' found in the world. I'd been to a few caves before but hadn't seen anything like it. Easier to describe as a honeycomb structure, the photo doesn't do justice to the cave. I love caves :) nice and cool Wildlife outside Wind Caves, warning signs not to approach them since they could ...