Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Road Trip Day 2: Billings, MT to Rapid City, SD

Today was a fun and interesting day on the road.  We got to go to my (Autumn) 2nd favorite state, Wyoming, first.  All of the Yellowstone direction signs were kind of torturous, but we made it :)  We have been pleasantly surprised by South Dakota so far.  It reminds me a lot of NE WA in the Black Hills.  We are in Rapid City now, and the view east appears to be very very flat and brown.  Tomorrow we get to go to the Badlands, then onward to St. Paul to see Jacquelyn.  Now for the pictures from the road....
 
Saw this beauty at a gas station in Billings this morning.  This local said to me, "Check out this Praying Mantis!  I think I'm going to take it home to the kids!!"  That really happened, LOL!

 This is part of the monument at Little Big Horn Battlefield.  An overall very disturbing place...will not be visiting any other battlefields anytime soon.

Jewel Cave, SD.  There were crystals everywhere.  Very cool.

Flow Stone in Jewel Cave...I think we've had enough caves :)
 
Us at Mt. Rushmore.  Such a strange thing, the blasting of President heads into mountains...it was interesting though.

See you tomorrow from the road!

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