On Saturday the 23rd we went to Custer State Park
and Drove the wildlife loop and then the Needles Hwy.
then we ended up at Mt. Rushmore.
Wow what an awesome time we had with our friends
Ron and Nancy from Florida!
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| Ron and Nancy put on an awesome T-bone lunch for us! Great food and great company! Nebraska Beef ~ ~ Yum! |
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| Sitting around catching up and talking about the ride we are fixin' to take to the Parks! |
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| Just inside of Custer state Park coming on at Rt. 36 there were two herds of buffalo on both sides of the road! ~Free Roam~ |
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| More Buffalo in the wild! |
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| Even more buffalo in the wild! |
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| A View of the mountain rocks we drove by! |
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| Just awesome views! More than we ever imagined! |
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| A Pronghorn Antelope along the way! |
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| This tells how they corral a certain amount of buffalo a year to sell at auction or they would have an over population of buffalo there! |
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| These are the corrals where this happens! |
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| Then we came up on some donkey's and burro's! We weren't sure if we would make it by then unscathed! |
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| And more! |
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| They were friendlier than we thought! ~ Free roaming ~ |
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| Dave had to check it out also! Neither of us got kicked! Ron and Nancy watched from the car! |
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| But then you had to dodge the Donkey Poop! This is their land ! |
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| There is a family of Pronghorn Antelope ~ Free Roaming ~ |
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| Then we made it to Prairie Town! these prairie dogs are so humorous to watch. First the lookout comes out to see if it is safe to come out of the community and play! |
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| Here is the lookout! Too Funny! |
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| Lake Sylvan up in the mountains Beautiful clear Blue water! |
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| Now we are on the Needles Parkway and there is NO WAY we could have brought the motor home up here! Look how small that tunnel is! There was three of them on our route through! |
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| Stopped at a mountain port~o~let and this creek was nearby. How peaceful a resting place! The mountain port~o~lets are like a small building with a commode that sits over a hole! Fancy way of saying "Outhouse" |
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| My favorite flower and it grows wild all over! |
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| Coming up to the Cathedral spires along the Needles Highway! |
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| Sites alongside of the road! |
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| More sights along the way! |
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| Then another tunnel even narrower! |
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| The Eye of the Needle! |
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| Another Lake up in the mountains! Just beautiful! |
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| And last but not least the third tunnel we went through! |
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| We made it to Mt. Rushmore! Yeah ~ what a ride! |
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| Avenue of the Flags ~ Every state flag lines this walk! |
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| A little cool up this high in the mountains at night Dave, Sharon, Ron and Nancy! We had such an awesome day! We ate in the Cafe here at Mt. Rushmore.. Sharon was the adventurous one and she ate a buffalo burger! It was really good tasting just a bit dry though! Had to try something new! |
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| Here they are~ Washington~Roosevelt Jefferson~Lincoln This was so impressive! We've seen pictures but not like seeing it in person~ we were in awe! |
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| Then after dark they lite it up! even more awesome! |
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| This is a bronze bust of the sculptor Borglum He had a dream and then a design then a mountain! |
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