Roadtrip - Day 48; Career Intersection - Day 65

Last night was interesting finding a place -- seemed like there was no room at the Inns.

After grabbing a quick breakfast this morning, we jumped in the car with our minds set on getting to Crazy Horse and then down the road to Denver.

Just our luck, though, we found a monument inside Rapid City that we had only read about and could not believe was true. Much to our surprise it was! The lawn mower sculpture of Rapid City does exist! Hutch climbed right up in the middle of the sculpture to take a picture.

Of course you are asking yourself why, we did too - but more importantly, would you want this guy as a neighbor?????

Still shaking our heads we jumped back in the car and headed for Crazy Horse. The bikers were everywhere -- seems like they were either going to Mt. Rushmore or to Crazy Horse.

We decided to take a quick detour and explore a cave before going into Crazy Horse. The tour was great! We stopped at Rushmore Cave. The tour was almost an hour long and we were in the cave most of that time. Hutch went with us - but was afraid to leave our side for a picture -- the passages were very narrow and you had to duck your head most of the time.

After the tour was over, Hutch decided he wanted to go on the Adventure Tour the next time when they take you through the holes in the cave on your belly. Not sure I will be going on the Adventure Tour.

On to Crazy Horse, we almost passed this site up, but we are so glad we came. The story of craving this massive monument is amazing and emotional. We spent almost 2 hours looking around the place and could have spent more time if we did not have to get back on the road.

If you go, you have to sit through the 15 minute movie. It tells such a wonderful story of both Crazy Horse and the respect the Tribes have for him and Korczak Ziolkowski, the man who started this with Chief Standing Bear.

Moved by the entire story, we moved forward to our destination of the night, Denver.

We will post a little more later.