Wyoming through South Dakota

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

It is 1:30am, and Judy and Chumley are sleeping. Thanks to a Verizon pci card, I can get an Internet connection in most cities and sometimes even on the road. So this is just to say we have not fallen off the edge of the planet -- although it looked like we had reached the boundary today when a thunderstorm burst above us somewhere to the east of the Missouri river.

This morning we woke up in the delightful Rocket Motel in Custer, South Dakota and headed 11 miles north to the Crazy Horse Monument. It is an astounding project, and the vision of the sculptor presented in the introductory video at the visitors center left us both teary-eyed.



It would have been better to see Rushmore first, since the scale and inspiration of the Crazy Horse project overshadowed it for us. jv