Traveling Across America 2018

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These are a few photos from our trip across the US.  We have logged 2000 miles on a trip from Georgia, through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska (just barely, maybe only for a couple of minutes), South Dakota (thus the photos), Wyoming, and tonight in Colorado.  We left Friday afternoon and it's now Tuesday night.  We will stay put in Denver and Colorado Springs for four nights.

We found South Dakota beautiful.  My goal was to see Mount Rushmore; my husband's was to get to Denver to see friends. In South Dakota we saw five landmarks, and I put them in order from best to least.
1.  Mt. Rushmore
2.  Badlands
3.  The World's Only Corn Palace in Mitchell
4/5.  A toss up:  Wall Drug Store and the Crazy Horse Memorial.  On a scale of 1-10 I give them both a .5.  Wall Drug is only slightly ahead because it didn't cost $24.00 to get into.  The Memorial is a Class A ripoff.

I have enjoyed seeing America's truly wide-open spaces and how things are different in the upper Midwest and West. However, a lot of America looks the same, as if there was a template of businesses and shopping centers that are just plopped into different terrains.

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