Denver
Unlike much of the States, the water here is highly drinkable. The hotel is blessed with having filtered Rocky Mountain water pumped straight to its plumbing. Ice cold, it hurts your teeth to drink it. Soft, almost soapily so.
Leaving Denver
Despite its impressive altitude, it still seems to sit below us, in some Colorado dessert bowl depression.
Unlike much of the States, the water here is highly drinkable. The hotel is blessed with having filtered Rocky Mountain water pumped straight to its plumbing. Ice cold, it hurts your teeth to drink it. Soft, almost soapily so.
Leaving Denver
Despite its impressive altitude, it still seems to sit below us, in some Colorado dessert bowl depression.
Keyline, WY
The sign said:
Elevation 5160 ft
Population 1
Population 1
... Had to mention that!
Crazy Horse Monument
Stopped off at the Chief Crazy Horse memorial - the World's largest sculpture, (started by Korczak Ziolkowski at the request of Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear). Unfortunately, it's too dark to photograph today - will save that for tomorrow or Sunday.
Black Hills, SD
Mount Rushmore
Also stopped at Mount Rushmore, made famous by the Hitchcock film North by Northwest, where Madison Avenue advertising executive, Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), is mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan.
Also stopped at Mount Rushmore, made famous by the Hitchcock film North by Northwest, where Madison Avenue advertising executive, Roger Thornhill (played by Cary Grant), is mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan.
The site comprises four president's faces carved by Gutzon Borglum: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, each dedicated in 1930, 33, 36 & 39 respectively), although the sculpture places them as Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln!
Gutzon Borglum was born in Idaho in 1867 of Danish Mormon parents. He studied much of his craft in Paris and is noted as providing America with another significant sculptural offering - a remodelled torch for the Statue of Liberty!
Gutzon Borglum was born in Idaho in 1867 of Danish Mormon parents. He studied much of his craft in Paris and is noted as providing America with another significant sculptural offering - a remodelled torch for the Statue of Liberty!
Keystone
424 miles later we arrive in Keystone, former gold-rush town of the 1870's-80's.
Raining heavily an hour after we arrive, we are horrified to hear of tomorrow's forecast - SNOW!
Caves in the area, of which there are three notable examples: Wind Cave, Jewel Cave and Rushmore Cave, are fairly constant in their temperature - 58f (15c in new money!), despite the ravages of what this region usually suffers above ground.
424 miles later we arrive in Keystone, former gold-rush town of the 1870's-80's.
Raining heavily an hour after we arrive, we are horrified to hear of tomorrow's forecast - SNOW!
Caves in the area, of which there are three notable examples: Wind Cave, Jewel Cave and Rushmore Cave, are fairly constant in their temperature - 58f (15c in new money!), despite the ravages of what this region usually suffers above ground.
- Perhaps that's our alternative!?
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