Today was a bit of a chilly day. Makes for a change from all the hot sun. Had a pretty good day today. Staying an extra day in Rapid City. The Best Western got another day out of us. Should get a free day voucher when we get home and check e-mail to see of voucher is there. Not checking home e-mail on the road just the g mail.
Started out with waiting for a bus at seven in the morning. Didn't get there until seven thirty. Nice but we were one of the last to get on. Nice motor coach with air. So not too bad. They then served us breakfast which was a plus.
So our tour today took us by bus to Mt Rushmore were we saw the monument of the presidents. Was real interesting to see even if we are Canadian. I love looking at things that are done in carving. We even walked the presidents walk, which wasn't too hard to walk. Going down wasn't too bad but when you had to walk back up the steps, well that did get a little tough on the knees. I did make it though without too much trouble. When you take that walk you can get right up and almost personal with their nostrils. Yep got to see up their noses.
After that we got back on the bus. Road over through Keystone and then to Hill City. A couple of souvenir places. Hill City is were a Harley dealer is. That caught someone's eye. So we may be driving over there tomorrow before we head out. You know just to take a look. Or he has already found the address in Rapid City and maybe we will be stopping there before we head out of town. Yeah!!!! Such fun.
From there we headed for the other monument in the area called Crazy Horse. It is still being worked on, but the head is done and they are blasting away in order to work on the horse part of it. When it is done in probably another fifty years it will look magnificent. It will be bigger then the the tallest buildings in the world. The carver that started it has now passed and his family have taken over to keep the dream alive. This gentleman has made many carvings in his life and was also an apprentice on the construction of Mt Rushmore. It is a big facility and to see all the crafts done by natives also at this facility was interesting.
The last place we went was on a drive through Custer National park. We're suppose to see buffalo there but none seemed to show themselves. Did see a few deer and elk though. At the end of this drive the driver took us up Iron Mountain. That was allot of switch backs to get up there. Up and up we went. Nice view when we got to the top though. On the way back down we came to a part of the road were they said it was not able to make about three miles of road to meet back up with highway 16. So a surveyour went into the bush for eight days to figure out how it could be done. He came up with a plan and this bus drove back down it. Well the road was made for model T's not big buses. You drive like you are going around a pigs tail. First you go over a bridge and then you circle around to go under this bridge. Then you go down the road a bit and then do another pig tail. The bus going through this was doing it very slowly and cars coming the other way did not want to move over to let the bus through. We did make it down. Boy was that ride fun.
So tonight are figuring out our plan for tomorrow. Yeah he wants to see the Harley dealer, you know just to take a look. Then it is on the road again. We are heading for home. Which way will be decided as we go. He has about four routes in the GPS and he will pick on on the drive out of town. I just hope it isn't t to round about way again. It takes forever and we seem to get nowhere. My legs and back just start getting sore just thinking about it. Well just have to see as we go. At least we are heading home and not south we're the weather is dang hot.
Well I had a good time today. No riding the bike and giving myself a. break. There was a walk on there I could have done without but it wasn't too hard. That felt good to take a break as my legs were cramping something fierce when I was trying to sleep last night. They are doing better now though and I should be able to head off tomorrow. Just have to wait and see. He says it will be an easy day. Well let's hope so.
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