Day 5 South Dakota - Mt Rushmore

 My cousin and his wife had to leave early for an antique car show in Tombstone, but left us breakfast and a note to use the shower and feed the fish in the trout pond. We all had a great time feeding the fish.

We left at about 11.00 and headed back to Spearfish, got gas $2.30, 28 gal, 19,589 miles.

We talked to a former Las Vegas stage hand who was running the Trump concession stand. He had lost his job due to the Plague. 

We then passed through Sturgis, saw a really cool stone barn.

At 1.20 PM we arrived at Mount Rushmore. We took advantage of all the ranger talks and found both the site to be way more interesting than we expected and the story of how it got built to be super fascinating.

The sculptor who created Mt Rushmore (bust sculpted by his son who finished the project)

And who's bust of Lincoln was described by Lincoln's son as "I have seen my father as if alive again".

The model used to organize the carving. If they had not run out of 1949 money, it would have looked more like this...

We left Mt Rushmore at 3.47 (so that's about 30 pictures an hour I think) and headed to the Bad Lands, but I think that's the next post.