Our next stop after our “Wall Drug” adventure in the town of Wall, was Badlands National Park. Badlands encompasses 244,000 acres and protects the largest expanse of prairie in the National Park System. The Oglala Lakota called these lands mako sica, meaning “land bad”. The French trappers and traders followed suit by calling this place…
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Crazy Horse Memorial: The Story
Seventeen miles from Mount Rushmore is where you will find the largest sculptural undertaking the world has ever known, with a height of 563 feet and a length of 641 feet. However, the story is not so much about the vastness of the sculpture as it is about the people who brought it into existence….
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
I’ve heard of Mount Rushmore most of my life. I’ve admired the unimaginable ability to carve faces into rock. But I’ve never thought about visiting until I realized how close we would be when passing through South Dakota on our recent road trip. I was excited to see the monument and understand how it might…
Another Road Trip Adventure
We recently returned from another road trip adventure. One of our most ambitious, yet we were able to reach each destination as planned. We completed our trip, I’m happy to say, with no health issues. If you have read my previous posts, you will know our last road trip included a visit to the hospital…
Hotel Hale, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
Hotel Hale is the only hotel in the national park. It was one of the old bath houses, remade into a beautiful boutique hotel. There are many other hotels on Bathhouse Row, located across the park property line, which is actually the main road. However, it is my personal goal to say on national park property whenever…
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