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The Badlands. |
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The Badlands. Actually, not so bad after all. |
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Panoramic of The Badlands. |
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Tricia at The Badlands, apparently about to do The Robot. |
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A shot of buffalo taken from the car. There were hundreds of them. |
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Holy smoke! Did they go to southern England? No. An enterprising soul in northwestern Nebraska buried a bunch of cars and various scrap metal in the ground. They call it Carhenge. It's actually pretty cool, but it's off the beaten path, to say the least. |
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Carhenge. |
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Mark playing atop Carhenge. |
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Carhenge. |
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An old steering wheel at Carhenge allows you to drive a Nebraska cornfield. It's a wild ride. |
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Tricia ponders Carhenge. |
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The last one of Carhenge. |
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The Chapel in the hills , in Rapid City, South Dakota |
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Tricia at the Chapel in the Hills. There is grass on the roof, we were told, so livestock can feed on it. |
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A Nebraska cornfield. We saw plenty of these. |
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Tricia considers Crazy Horse. The face is about 80 stories high, and we are about 1000 feet from the mountain. This is really something to see, and the documentary-style movie they show there is top-notch. |
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Jim, Mark, and Tyler amble near a creek in Custer State Park. |
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Scene of the high plains, grasslands. |
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Mark at Mt. Rushmore. |
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Mark on Mt. Rushmore. |
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Tyler at Mt. Rushmore. |
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Tyler on Mt. Rushmore. The future, revealed. |
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Mark and Tricia at Custer State Park, self portrait. |
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Mark at the shores of Lake McConaughy in western Nebraska. |
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A bit of the road cut out of the mountain in the Black Hills. |
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The Needles in Custer State Park, South Dakota. This is about 6000 feet elevation. |
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Nebraska. |
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A Conoco parking lot in Ogallala, NE. In August 2003 I had a freak fall and broke my leg on the very spot I'm standing on. That day was planned to be a drive through of the only time I'd ever been in Nebraska, but I ended up staying about a week in the North Platte Regional Medical Center while they fixed up my broken bones. |
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Tricia, Kait, and Tyler enjoying the public art of bronzed presidents on the streets of downtown Rapid City, SD. Unlike your bronzed baby shoes, the presidents are not actually interred in the bronzes. |
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Mount Rushmore from the car. |
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One of the first views of Mount Rushmore upon approach. |
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An overlook leading to Mount Rushmore, Tyler and Jim. |
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Tricia at the Rushmore overlook. |
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Pinching the heads at Mount Rushmore. |
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The tourist promenade at Mount Rushmore. |
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Tricia ponders life without Mount Rushmore. Honestly, it's about the same with or without. |
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Tricia + corn. |
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Wild donkeys come to the car to get snacks in Custer State Park at the Begging Burro site. |
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Tricia leads the way. |
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There is only one donkey in this picture. |
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Scenery at Wind Cave National Park. The pics inside the huge cave didn't turn out well. |