Day 4
We started the day very early and headed to the north to
South Dakota. Even though the deviation to South Dakota will cost us half a day
of traveling, we would not want to miss this amazing attraction…… Mount
Rushmore!!
I first encountered this iconic landmark when I was 12 years
old during the screening of Superman II. The faces of Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt were transformed
into the faces of the villain aliens……
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| Mount Rushmore National Memorial |
From Fort Collins, it took almost 3 ½ hours driving to reach
the National memorial which being visited by almost 3 million people a
year, Being carved from the granite
walls of Black Hills, this piece work of art actually never completed when it first started back in 1927 through
1941. Looking up directly from the terrace, I wonder how they did it to realize
this gigantic sculpture….
On our way back we stopped at another more ambitious project
that is still on-going. This will be the biggest man-made sculpture project
ever built in the world that will take many more years to complete. Privately
owned, this Crazy Horse Memorial will eventually reveal a sculpture of an
Indian Warrior (Oglala Lakota) riding a horse and pointing to the
distance.
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| Crazy Horse Memorial |
Our trip continues towards Wyoming where we took a break in
the middle of nowhere and call it a day…..
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