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Vacation 05: Yellowstone, Mt Rushmore Date(s): September  2005. Album by Frank and JoAnne Logan. 1 - 232 of 232 Total. 3544 Visits.
1 Mississippi River from motel in Quincy, Illinois 2 Iowa farmland 3 More Iowa farmland 4 Ate lunch in Mason City where  restaurant displayed Meredith Wilson memorabilia 5 Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa 6 Entrance to square honoring Meredith Wilson 7 Boyhood home of Meredith Wilson 8 The Jolly Green Giant @ Blue Earth, MN 9 Sprout & Jolly's other buddies are nearby. 10 Saw all these sights plus more in South Dakota 11 Overview of Sioux Falls,SD from observation tower 12 Closer look at the falls 13 As close as you can get 14 More Sioux Falls 15 Note the city skyline in the background 16 A restaurant & gift shop to the left 17 JoAnne & statue honoring the farmer 18 Two monarchs !! 19 Corn Palace in Mitchell,SD 20 Murals are redesigned every year & decorated with more than 2,000 bushels of corn & 40 tons of other grains. 21 Down front in the Corn Palace 22 The sign says it all 23 Hunters come from everywhere for the pheasants in SD 24 All SD visitor centers have teepee structures 25 National Civil Engineering Landmark near Chamberlain, SD 26 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial marker, part of National Spatial Referencing System 27 Display about Mitchell, SD @ visitor center 28 Chamberlain, SD in distance 29 Bridge in distance leads to Chamberlain, SD 30 SD prairie 31 More SD prairie 32 Roads stretch for miles & miles 33 Watering hole on SD prairie 34 SD farm 35 Windmills in SD 36 The Brown homestead in SD 37 Long-range view of the Brown homestead 38 Sign telling about the Homestead Act 39 Sodhouse @ the homestead 40 Notice that barns are larger than the house 41 Stove for cooking & warmth 42 A sewing machine was an important possession 43 Anyone for a buggy ride? 44 Water for drinking & for the farm animals 45 Bet it was cold in here when the winter winds & snows stated blowing 46 Sign on old car 47 The old car itself 48 There were prairie dogs all around 49 A prairie dog up close 50 A prairie dog just outside his burrow 51 The Badlands from a postcard 52 The Badlands as we saw them 53 The Badlands up close 54 More Badlands 55 Nothing but Badlands 56 Still more Badlands 57 A walkout into the Badlands 58 Distant view from the Badlands 59 Billboards for Wall Drug along I-90  reminded us of those for South of the Border on I-95. 60 Museum told unforgettable story of  1890 massacre of 300 Lakota men, women & children @ Wounded Knee Creek 61 Black Hills region is 6,000 square miles of pine-clad mountains. 62 More Black Hills 63 Sculpture in foreground shows how Crazy Horse Monument will look when completed 64 A special laser light show & blasting  because it was anniversary of Crazy Horse's death 65 Crazy Horse Monument during light show 66 Another view during light show 67 The sculptor of Mount Rushmore 68 A bust of the Rushmore sculptor done by his son 69 JoAnne in Keystone sitting by the Lincoln statue that Borglum did 70 Entrance to Mount Rushmore 71 Avenue of Flags @ Mount Rushmore 72 Flags of NC & NY on the same column 73 NC's inscription on the column 74 Rushmore from the Grand Terrace 75 Mount Rushmore up close 76 More Mount Rushmore 77 Rushmore from parking lot 78 View of Rushmore from road past the monument 79 Closer view 80 Notice Mount Rushmore in the distance beyond the tunnel 81 Buffalo in Custer State Park 82 "These tourists are starting to get on my nerves!" 83 Burros on the road in the park 84 More buffalo 85 Pronghorn antelope 86 Ranger station in Custer State Park 87 The Needles from a distance 88 Closer view of the Needles 89 More Needles 90 Needles & more Needles 91 Lake view from the Needles 92 "Watch out for that rock up top!!" 93 Deadwood,SD 94 Deadwood is a gambling town. 95 Gold mine outside Deadwood 96 View of Deadwood from the cemetery 97 Grave of Wild Bill Hickock 98 Calamity Jane is buried beside Hickock at her request. 99 Grave of the town's most notorious madam 100 Another view of the town from the cemetery 101 Chinese workers were buried in the cemetery, but did not remain there 102 A staged gunfight in the street 103 The victim 104 Road leading to or from Deadwood 105 Battlefield was more interesting and informative than we thought. 106 Sign @ Little Bighorn visitor center 107 Rows & rows of grave markers @ Little Bighorn 108 Tells who has been buried here 109 Quotation on wall of Visitor Center @ Little Bighorn 110 View of Little Bighorn Battlefield 111 More of the battlefield 112 Little Bighorn Memorial 113 Inscription on the Memorial 114 Mass grave @ Little Bighorn 115 Horse cemetery @ Little Bighorn 116 Cheyenne Memorial @ Little Bighorn 117 Display of Custer @ Little Bighorn 118 Indian faces @ Little Bighorn 119 Words of Crazy Horse on a display @ Little Bighorn 120 Interesting sculpture with a ghostlike quality on the battlefield 121 We saw views that would rival this postcard. 122 Somewhere in Montana between Billings & Livingston 123 The Yellowstone River in Montana 124 Following the river from Livingston to Yellowstone Park 125 The sign says it all 126 Gardiner, MT is just outside the park. 127 The Roosevelt Arch is the northern entrance to Yellowstone & the only entrance open year round. 128 Park Headquarters @ Mammoth Hot Springs 129 Elk just lying around on the grounds 130 One elk decides it's time to eat 131 Yellowstone River from a bridge inside the park 132 We saw lots of these birds in the park 133 Beautiful scene in Yellowstone 134 One of several waterfalls 135 Note the Yellowstone River and the bleached cliffs 136 The Grand Canyon area of the park 137 One of several times we crossed the divide 138 Lower Falls @ 308 feet is largest & most sensational 139 Closer look @ Lower Falls 140 A moose in the woods just off the road 141 Upper Falls @ 109 feet 142 Closer look @ Upper Falls 143 Another breathtaking view in Yellowstone 144 Another waterfall 145 Boat on Yellowstone Lake 146 Another view of Yellowstone Lake 147 More of Yellowstone 148 Old Faithful starting to erupt 149 Old Faithful in full blast 150 Old Faithful just outside our room in the inn 151 Old Faithful from the balcony upstairs 152 Another geyser near Old Faithful 153 Part of Old Faithful Inn where we stayed 154 The geyser and inn looked just as they do on this postcard. 155 The lobby in the inn was massive. 156 "Wily Coyote" just off the road in the geyser are 157 One of the paint pots 158 More of the paint pots 159 More of the area around the paint pots 160 Buffalo grazing near the road 161 "OK, Frank.  That's close enough!" 162 Display in visitor center @ Jackson, WY 163 One of the Antler Arches in town square in Jackson 164 Closeup of the antlers 165 Stayed at the Virginian Lodge in Jackson 166 Leaving Jackson, Wyoming 167 More of the Jackson, WY area 168 Frank @ JoAnne in the Tetons "Wow! I love this pic of yo..." View Comments... 169 The Tetons were magnificient with peaks over 13,000 feet. 170 The X-Terra performed like a champ even in the Tetons 171 It had snowed during the night... 172 And started snowing again as we were leaving the Tetons 173 Frank's favorite picture of the Tetons 174 Idaho Falls, Idaho 175 More of Idaho Falls 176 Notice the spillway 177 Closeup of the falls 178 Still more of the falls 179 The Snake River in Idaho 180 More of the Snake River 181 Scenery along the road in Idaho 182 An Idaho ranch 183 "Let's go to Logan, Utah." 184 Pretty view near The Great Salt Lake 185 Seven mile causeway leading to Antelope State Park & the Great Salt Lake 186 The Great Salt Lake is at least six times saltier than the ocean. 187 Notice the salt along the shoreline 188 We spent a day and night in Ogden. 189 Union Station(now several museums) in downtown Ogden, Utah 190 Picture in the museum showing Promontory Point, not far from Ogden 191 Trains @ the museum--we saw more trains on this trip than in our whole life, especially Union Pacific ones. 192 The Browning Museum @ Union Station 193 Frank's gun is like the one on the bottom 194 Frank near the shotgun area in the museum 195 Speed limit in much of Wyoming was 75, but the cowboys we saw were on four-wheelers. 196 Southern Wyoming on the way home 197 More southern Wyoming 198 Town off to the left 199 Rock cliffs in southern Wyoming 200 Only grizzlies we saw were stuffed & in displays. 201 Covered wagon (notice modern wagon to the right of it) 202 Windmills in southern Wyoming 203 Notice the snow fences in the fields 204 We spent a night in Cheyenne, the capitol of Wyoming. 205 Monument commemorates the Lincoln Highway, America's 1st transcontinental road 206 Colorado was one of our destinations 207 JoAnne was fascinated by the trains 208 "Bring on the good life!" 209 Great Platte River Road Archway Monument across I-80 in Kearney, Nebraska 210 We went to Cabela's in Sidney, Nebraska with over 13,000 sq.ft. & corporate headquarters. 211 This display in Sidney was also in the Cabela's in Kansas City. Wonder if it's in all their stores? 212 "We are definitely in Kansas, Dorothy!" 213 Fields & fields of sunflowers in Kansas--also saw them in Iowa. 214 Cabela's in Kansas City, Kansas (180,000 sq.ft.) 215 A large African plains display in this Cabela's 216 Even a full-sized Piper Cub flying from the ceiling 217 Lots of fish displays 218 The Kansas City Speedway 219 Water tower in Kansas City near Cabela's 220 Kansas City skyline 221 Bridges over the Mississippi River from Missouri to Illinois 222 Closer view of the bridges(at St. Louis, MO) 223 Nashville, TN skyline 224 More of the Nashville skyline 225 Knoxville, TN.  Notice the Sunsphere in the upper right. It was built in 1982 for the World's Fair. 226 More of Knoxville 227 The Tennessee mountains 228 Moon over mountain outside our motel in Newport, TN 229 Wow!  North Carolina never looked so good.  Almost home now. 230 More of the NC mountains 231 An overlook at NC Welcome Center 232 Home, Sweet Home!!  A great vacation, but no place like home.
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