Crazy Horse Memorial

"The mission of Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation is to protect and preserve the culture, tradition and living heritage of the North American Indians. The Foundation demonstrates its commitment to this endeavor by continuing the progress on the world’s largest sculptural undertaking by carving a memorial of Lakota leader Crazy Horse."

Mount Rushmore

Behave yourself, Callie!

I confess, I wasn't all that jazzed to go to Mount Rushmore. Boy, am I glad I was overruled. The history of how and why it was created was fascinating to learn about. It far exceeded my expectations!

Custer State Park, South Dakota

State Game Lodge

Smokey da Bear

Pronghorn Deer

Buffalo Selfie

Credit where credit is due:  most of the photos are by Madden. 

This was unexpected....

I guess we should have considered that we might be driving over a mountain pass as we were leaving Jackson Hole, however, I just had never looked at anything but a street map. If I had, we might have noticed that we were crossing through the Bridger Teton National Forest, and we might be at a high elevation. Indeed, we were over 10,000 feet. I'm not sure these photos accurately depict the size or volume of the flakes. It was a blizzard! In June!

Wide Open Spaces in Wyoming

We wish we had spent one more day in Yellowstone.

 

This guy walked out right in front of us!

Old Faithful with hundreds of our closest friends.

The Tetons reminded us of The Sound of Music!

Hello Mr. Marmot.

Summit of the Jenny Lake hike.

Family Selfie.

Life with a dancer.

Big Sky Country

I'm not able to pinpoint exactly what it was about Montana that made it the highlight of our trip for me; perhaps it was the quaintness of Bozeman, the adventure of glamping, rafting on the Gallatin, the fear factor of ziplining at Big Sky Mountain, or quite simply the endless blue sky. Regardless, it is a place to which I hope to return. Soon.