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This morning, our tour group was divided up among a half dozen mini-vans because the roads we were about to take were too narrow for our motor coach. Deep in the Black Hills of South Dakota, we took a very scenic ride through buffalo country, getting an up-close look at a heard of buffalo including a fight between two disagreeable males. Dawn got an opportunity to feed some wild burrows. While traveling through a rocky area known as The Needles, named after a rock formation that looks like the eye of a needle, we learned why we had to leave our motor coach behind. We drove through a very narrow one-lane tunnel and as we passed through, we got our first glimpse of Mount Rushmore - framed by the tunnel. We continued on to Mount Rushmore, stopped at the visitor center, and got to walk up close to the base of the mountain. Afterwards, we went to the Borglum Historical Center to learn much of the history of how this giant monument was made. Larry had brought the motor coach to Mount Rushmore, so we left the mini-vans and returned to traveling in style. We continuing on through Deadwood, a brawling town during the gold-mining days and then spent the night in Lead, South Dakota. |
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Day 2, Tuesday June 29th
