South Dakota!!

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 be dangerous...one look at them and I dont know who in their right minds would approach them and for what, a hug?!

Da Crazy Horse monument. You have to know that other than knowing/hearing about about many of the sights I visited, I hadnt done any research whatsoever, so it was nice to learn stuff, instead of the 'i knew that' type of response that takes place when you over-research a place before the visit. So....this place is privately funded and managed, no state, federal funds. The family that started it years ago continues to do it based on donations or visitor fees...pretty remarkable when you see what they have been able to achieve. They expect to complete it about 50yrs from now.

This thing is huge! to give you an idea, all the four heads of Mt Rushmore fit into the head of here.

What it will look like when it is all done.