Summer Vacation Chronicles - Vol. 11

From Sheridan,WY we drove to Sturgis, SD (population 6400). Tom was curious to see this town that grows to almost 500,000 in August when they have their rallies. We saw a couple bikers, but not anything like the above picture! Fun Fact ~ a couple years ago at a rally there were 144 marriage licences granted!

Then we made our way to Crazy Horse Mountain Memorial~
Crazy Horse is currently being commemorated with the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota — a monument carved into a mountain, in the tradition of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial (on which Korczak Ziółkowski had worked with Gutzon Borglum). The sculpture was begun by Ziółkowski in 1948. When completed, it will be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high. Though still incomplete because of funding constraints, the sculpture has been criticized by some American Indian activists (most notably Russell Means) as exploitative of Lakota culture and Crazy Horse's memory as well as desecrating sacred ground.
Wikipedia
(You can fit all the Presidents on Mount Rushmore into the one face of Crazy Horse.)