Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Yellowstone to Mount Rushmore , South Dakota
(Prologue – last night – June 10, 2011 – I did some catching up and added pictures where there were none for the last days in Yellowstone , etc. We are now in Rochester , MN preparing for the marathon run to Taylor , Michigan for two nights and visits to the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
June 8th was an underwater journey so to speak. Plenty of rain. The camping gear was soaked and so was the landscape.
We left the campground and drove to Mammoth Springs through now familiar country.
The journey from Mammoth Springs out of the park was spectacular, winding as it did down from the mountains beside a raging river. (Guardrails beside the road are not a priority.)
The Yellowstone River Valley carried us in the Montana
At mile 475 on I-90, there was no sign of habitation naught but green hills, black highways, gray sky and a rest area.
The road unwound though a verdant landscape of small lakes, creeks and green, green, green. There were scattered, tilled fields and evidence of emerging crops – wheat? Therefore, we drove through Middle America aiming arrow straight for Rapid City , South Dakota
We passed briefly through a corner of Wyoming and then into South Dakota
Passing through Belle Fourche the geographic center of the United States before joining I-90 for Rapid City Rapid City , we joined Route 16 toward our destination- Horse thief Lake
We pitched our tent the shore the lake and hoped it would not rain as promised.
( June 12, 2011. I'm behind again! We are in Dearborn, Michigan and have spent the at Nenry Ford's Greenfield Village.
Niagra Falls tomorrow.)
Big Sky, Endless Prairie
Small Farm, Big Landscape
Slowly Hills Appear
A Red Trailer Amid a Sea of Green
Now and then a Colorful Outcrop
Bel Forche, South Dakota, Geographic Center of the USA
And Another Colorful Outcrop
The First Glimpse of the Black Hills of South Dakota
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