Went on a three day road trip up North and missed the rainy weekend in Fort Collins. Jerry has a good weather luck charm! Highlights of the trip were Devil’s Tower in Wyoming where Close Encounters of the Third Kind was filmed. Hugh tower coming out of the ground in Northern Wyoming. Made it to Spearfish South Dakota for the night and then did a whirlwind drive to Sturgis (already selling tee shirts for the big motorcycle rally in August). Lots of saloons and souvenir shops. Had breakfast in Deadwood where Wild Bill Hickock was killed. Lots of casinos and a very western theme, basically one long street. Did a drive through of Rapid City which has a metal sculpture of 38 different presidents, one on each street corner. they plan to do all of them at some point. It was a quick drive through but easy to recognize some of them. Nice little tourist attraction. Some beautiful drives down through the Black Hills and on to Mount Rushmore. Definitely worth a visit to see the sight but to learn some of the history behind the faces. Then on to Crazy Horse which is the face of what will be a full mountain carving of Crazy Horse on his horse. The family working on this huge structure has been doing this since 1948. The father, Korczak Ziolkowski, was commissioned by the Native American tribes in the area. He had 10 kids, 7 are still working on the mountain. Very interesting story and sight. I would be typing all day to tell it but we would recommend putting a visit to the area on your to do travel list. We ended the day with a drive through Custer State Park with herds of bison roaming. We were almost out of the park when we finally spotted the herd. Spent the night in Hot Springs and went to the mammoth bone pit Sunday morning. Again very interesting history of how so many mammoths ended up in that pit. We were home by 3:00. Saturday included a walk to a very pretty water falls
