Escape from Mt. Rushmore (and, finally, home!)
We got home yesterday! Yay for our own bed and a refrigerator full of food! Here are our final stories, before we shut this thing down... Heading east from Yellowstone, we took the northern route toward Mt. Rushmore. Our audio tour led us through the Black Hills National Forest on the way there, pointing us toward — you guessed it! — some more beautiful waterfalls. As our altitude decreased, the climate changed and we shed our puffy winter jackets and gloves for sweatshirts and finally even t-shirts. Beautiful day, isn't it? After checking in to our cute little cabin, we made our way to Mt. Rushmore. After the natural beauties of Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Sedona, Page, Point Loma, and so many other places around the country, my response to seeing Mt. Rushmore for the first time was... "Huh." It’s nice and all, but this has been a trip full of wonders. There was a good trail that led us to different viewing points to see the monument from different angles, so w...
