What a day, from the downright spiritual three hours at the Crazy Horse memorial to the drive down, and up, Needles hwy to the up close and personal view of wild pronghorns, mules, more buffalo, prairie dogs ect, not sure we could have packed more in to one day.
We talked a little to try and describe what our experience was like at Crazy Horse. We both were completely inspired by the dedication of the memorials creator, Korczak Ziolkowski and his family to telling the story of the American Indians. If you are interested I have attached a link http://www.crazyhorse.org/ . Our experience at Crazy Horse sure didn’t leave us proud to be white.
The memorial is not complete and they estimate it will take 7 years before the horses head is complete, they won’t estimate total completion but one guide said it could be another 100 years. Korczak has been offered help by the government to fund the project and has refused several times, he insisted before his death that the people should fund this memorial in recognition of the American Indian as the government has betrayed them enough. Crazy Horse was chosen to be the one carved in the mountain as he was the only Indian chief to never sign a treaty, refused to live on a reservation and was murdered while under a flag of truce by three American soldiers.
It’s size it absolutely incredible and isn’t captured in the pictures. The head alone on Crazy Horse is slightly bigger than all of Mount Rushmore, each nostril on the horse, once complete will be 30 ft in diameter and Crazy Horses nose is 28 ft long. We leave this place with a better understanding of the American Indian and of the settlers, we are again in awe of what we saw.
The trip through Custer’s state parks 14 mile Animal loop trail was nice but we were kind of surprised that it was less mountains and more huge rolling fields. We then decided to take a famous scenic hwy, Needles, on the way back. Just stunning, ok a bit scary too, At least half of this 18 miles required us to keep the mirrors in and do between 15 and 20 mph there are three single lane tunnels (holes blasted out of the mountain) that require 100% driver attention and in our case some passenger interaction. The views were amazing and worth the occasional white knuckle driving. Love you guys
3 comments:
Wow!
The pics are so amazing!
I know that my knuckles would be white if I was driving, let’s be honest you would not have a truck or trailer left… But you know if you had a bike you wouldn’t have the white knuckles!!
I didn’t know that Gary was their, jackass… LOL The keyboard made me write it!
Miss you guy and it looks like you are having a blast, what’s next?
Lv ya,
Kay
Pretty awesome stuff. Yeah, the government and white men really did the Indians dirty all the way from the East Coast. We pretty much took over.
Wow, on that trip thru the rock.
Kay, not sure how they would haul that camper behind bikes, lol:)
--Cheryl
Cheryl,
Jess & Missy could haul a bike behind the trailer. Or they could ditch the trailer and get a side car for Amy. LOL
Could you see your brother and Missy doing that?
Kay
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