Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
There's a little known secret...
It’s smaller than it appears! When traveling across country from Connecticut to Washington, we stopped for the morning at Mount Rushmore, and I was taken back by how small it appeared in person.
It was a great sight, and well worth the trip, but I couldn’t believe how well text books and photos psyched me out!
If you’re passing through, make the stop, but avoid the Crazy Horse Memorial – it’s greatly incomplete and not worth the dinero, if you know what I mean.
One other cool attraction was the Reptile Gardens (with the low hanging dangling boa that I walked into face first – I didn’t even see the blasted thing – good thing is was friendly). I have to admit, the Reptile Gardens has the coolest tribal-wood-carving-world-oriented-trinket (Jungle Outpost Tribal Art Gallery) store I’ve ever seen. They have many more items than what they show online, and I have to return JUST to buy an authentic didgeridoo ;)
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