Chief Crazy Horse Memorial

    The Memorial is a mountain-sized statue of an Indian man and warhorse that’s as long as a cruise ship and taller than a 60 story skyscraper.
     Korczak Ziolkowski   
He began the creation of the world’s largest sculpture on June 3, 1948. The effort continues today through the efforts of his widow and their [...]

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Eight More Random Things About Me

Susan has tagged me for this meme. Now you have to bear with me as I am new at doing this sort of thing. So here goes:
1. I love nature. It gives me a feel of calmness and enjoyment when I can be out in the trees and flowers.
2. I love the mountains. Though I was born [...]

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Mt Rushmore National Monument

The other day we visited Mount Rushmore National Memorial. It is located in the southwestern corner of SD; just off of Highway 244
It is nestled in the Black Hills; formed from Harney Peak granite, which is so hard that it erodes only one inch every 10,000 years. 
The sculpture was started on Oct.4, 1927 by Gutzon Borghum [...]

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Help with Size of Postings?

I need to know just how many photos I can publish in a blog; as I seem to be having problems with this issue; can anyone help? There is a limit to the total size of a post in WordPress; but I don’t remember what it was or how to tell the size of the post [...]

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Round & About

We are currently staying at Rushmore Shadows Resort, a RV Park located in the southwestern part of South Dakota. We are staying in this park as this part of the state has great features for the entertainment of all; we plan to see a lot of it!
Right next door to us is a place called McDonalds Farm. It appears to [...]

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Heat or Retreat?

Okay, I cry Uncle!  Give me a break please– please who ever is in charge of hot– please make it go away. 
It is hotter than hell here! And it is suppose to get up to 107 today. Now when you live in a small box that adds up to be about 150 degrees or [...]

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The Sky was flooded with Rain

Yesterday, John & I took a trip to the grocery store.
We are staying in a RV park near Rapid City, SD just off Highway 16 which is a divided highway with two lanes each way.
The road went through quite a hilly area and was quite curvy. So off we went on this big highway, the traffic was [...]

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More of Bison in the Park

Before you read this post read “Bison in the Park” in the prior posting.  I had to split the post to get it to publish.
I was looking at at least three large bulls, several females and even some babies.  Those bulls, were staying between John & myself and those females and babies. 
They didn’t need to worry, [...]

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Bison in the Park

I have been trying to get this to publish since Monday – so far it keeps giving me a time out error. So I will split it in have and try that! 
 
7/15   Continuing with my story about the Roosevelt Park:
We (John & I) stopped at one of the camp grounds where we discovered the trail [...]

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Continued: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

7/15  We got off to a late start today; left the RV at one in the afternoon, and you can imagine how hot it was outside; I don’t know for sure what the temperature was, but, my face turned red and I was dripping – I didn’t know that I could do that! At least, [...]

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