Day 42

Date: Sunday August 16, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: Sheridan Lake Campground

Distance to drive: 30 miles

Hours to drive: about 20 minutes

Destination: Mount Rushmore

Planned activities: check out Mount Rushmore

Quote of the day: “It is not what I expected.” This seems to be the common theme on our trip.  This time it was Chad talking about Mount Rushmore, but the big one has said it regarding more than one thing as well.

I find history very interesting, so I learned (I am sure that I knew some of the information that I read, but the filing cabinet is full and unorganized and there is lots of information that is lost and other information that will soon be lost.) a lot at the monument.  Chad took a ton of pictures and we walked the Presidents’ Trail.  If we ever return we will check out the monument lighting ceremony.  I am always impressed by people’s visions and how they manage to accomplish it with a lot of hard work, versus the machinery that is used now a days.

For pictures of this and other parts of our trip see Chad's blog epicorzenroadtrip.blogspot.com