Sioux Falls - visit to Mount Rushmore

In case you haven't seen them, there are now two posts from Deadwood...scroll down to read.

This morning we continued deep into South Dakota in order to visit Mount Rushmore situated in the Black Hills. It was an incredible project started in 1927 and not completed until 1941 (I've been involved in building projects like that myself...). It's pretty surreal as you drive up this hill and round a bend to catch a glimpse of such an iconic monument. There is now a national park dedicated to it and we took the audio tour which was also very interesting.

We left Mount Rushmore and began the long drive to Sioux Falls which is at the far eastern end of South Dakota. We drove out of the Black Hills and into the Badlands - and across mile after mile of fields. It's amazing to think that, in a country of 300 million people, there is so much land inhabited only by the odd cow.... We've already covered 2,300 miles (and crossed two time zones) with a further 600 to go in the next two days. That'll make 3,000 miles in 9 days of driving. Poor Brandon said that he'll never complain about driving from Santa Barbara to LA again !!