Crazy Horse

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We spent the night in Hill City, and after a quick breakfast zipped down the road a few miles to the Crazy Horse monument. We hadn’t been expecting too much. You can see it from the road, and it’s cool and all, but, well… Well, we went in, and the … Read More

Mount Rushmore

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We love this place. Nothing—aside from maybe the Statue of Liberty—screams “America” quite so loudly. We’ve been telling the kids about Mount Rushmore for months now, and I was a little afraid that maybe we had overdone it. But then, a couple of hours after we had left, Lowe said out of … Read More

Badlands

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The Badlands begin right down the street from Wall. I can’t imagine how unexpected this land had to be for the early pioneers—and how unwelcome. Somehow every time we come through the Badlands the temperature soars to one hundred. It doesn’t matter what the weather is like in the rest … Read More

Wall Drug

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A couple of months back we started telling the kids about Wall Drug. We told them all about the abundance of toys, sweets, and weird things that you wouldn’t see anywhere else. They were sold. We drove the backroads until we got close to Wall, then we bombed the interstate. … Read More

Corn Palace

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We motored back out onto I-90 this morning with Mitchell, South Dakota on the radar. Along the way we spotted a giant bulls head (sort of) and had to stop, because it was ridiculous, and we needed to pee. Turns out some farmer with moderate welding skills is also a … Read More