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| #3, #2, and #1 |
One of the really great stops we made that was sort of an after-thought, was at Devil's Tower National Monument. In fact, it was the first National Monument, made so by Teddy Roosevelt, in the era when he really got the National Parks movement off the ground to preserve spaces of natural beauty and wonder in the U.S. As we drove up to this place, Augustus and I were thinking, "What in the world did we do, stopping off to just see this big thing made of rock columns sticking up into the air?". Once we got closer, though, we could tell that this was a really great stop and a special place; so neat, in fact, that we stayed right in the campground facing the tower and went back up to it the next morning to get a closer look and let the girls get their Junior Ranger badges for completing their required work. Incidentally, the Devil's Tower is open for climbing 24 hours a day, 11 months of the year, and if you saw it, you might wonder how anyone could climb up such a rock structure. Before we went to bed at night, we could actually see 3 climbers at different stages of their climb on the Tower with their headlamps on (actually, the headlamps were the only part of them that we could see). So, I would definitely recommend this as a great stop for anyone traveling in the northeastern part of Wyoming or the southwestern part of South Dakota (near the Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Sturgis, etc.)
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| Devil's Tower |
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| Contemplating a rock, or some other fascinating object at the campsite. |
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| View from our tent. Pretty awesome! |
The next pictures are out of chronological order in our trip because we drove through Sturgis even before arriving at Mt. Rushmore and then drove on to Devil's Tower. Anyway, we knew that the Sturgis Rally (motorcycle) was starting up just days after our stay in the area, so we drove through town just to get the sight and feel of what goes on. It definitely is a unique event and almost makes you want to own a Harley, just so you could drive it to Sturgis for the Rally every year.
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| There are bikers and bikes everywhere. |
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| The History Channel had a truck for their cross-country cookout show in town. |
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