It is ok, this guy isn't real but one of the friendly fella's we saw at our stop at a place called Wall Drug. It is a pharmacy that started off offering coffee for 5 cents and free iced water to attract customers. Now it has basically made the whole town a tourist attraction.
Now before any of you ask I want to answer the question that I know you want to ask....yes the carving at Mt Rushmore is massive!
It was wonderful to see one of the most iconic images of the USA and even more impressive to see it in person, both during the day and at night. We also took a walk up to the base of the mountain which almost blows your mind when you see the scale of Washington's, Jefferson's, Roosevelt's and Lincoln's faces.
A few miles from Mt Rushmore and even larger scale mountain project is being undertaken. It is a monument to a hero of the local Native AMerica tribe of the area, called Crazy Horse. The project has been going for approximately 50 years and is at the current state of having the face of Crazy Horse carved out of the mountain. The completed sculpture is shown in white and at the projects current rate will taken between 150 to 200 years to complete, so not something Dan or I will see finished in our lifetime.
The Crazy Horse sculpture and mountain.
To give you an idea of the scale of this mountain carving, it is 10 times bigger than Mt Rushmore and if/when it is completed, it will be the world's largest.
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