RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA

So many attractions are here so we start out by visiting the Crazy Horse Memorial, this is a huge carving of Crazy Horse, which was started in 1948.  A famous sculptor, Korczak Ziolkowski and his family of wife and 10 children have been on this mountain and have supervised the sculpture since early 1950.  They will not take any taxpayers funds to do this wonder, and so depend on the public to finance it.  They have numerous museums and gift shops to go through and the sculptors studio to see.  It is amazing how they do blasting of the granite of the mountain to do this fantastic sculpture.  The sculptor died years ago and the wife and kids continue to work on this.  There is so much work to do that it may not be completely done in my lifetime, or even my kids lifetime, but it will be there for the generations to come.  The head is almost 2 times the height of the presidents faces on Mount Rushmore.  It is amazing to see and enjoy.  We continued our sightseeing the next day to Mount Rushmore.  It is so huge, you can see it from the road going up to this amazing monument.  The attraction is free to the public, but you have to pay to park, and the gift shop and other donations keep the maintenance on the sculpture.  Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, will be up on the top of the mountain for generations to come.  It is so amazing and awe-inspiring.  We took a lot of pictures and I hope you enjoy them.  Both days we went  to Custer State Park, which was so beautiful, we had to do it twice.  We saw burros(pic) and so many buffalo(bison), the park has a herd of 13,00 of them.  They were all over the road and stopped traffic, we also saw some deer.  It was wonderful.  We stopped for lunch one day in the town of Keystone, a cute little old fashioned town, and we had some great food, I had Buffalo Stew served in a breadbowl and it was quite good.  Buffalo (which is really called Bison)  is a very lean meat and does not have a gamey taste at all, I really liked it.  Enjoy the photos, we will be leaving tomorrow, for yet another town in Wyoming, Casper, I told you we really like Wyoming.