Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills of South Dakota

Next, we toured the world’s largest mountain carving, the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear invited Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to crave Crazy Horse, and this colossal carving was begun on June 3, 1948. My first two pictures show the mountain carving in progress, on which the 87 foot high face of Crazy Horse has been completed. The memorial will stand 563 feet high when it is finished. My third photo shows the scale model used for the craving with the mountain in the distance a mile away. The scale model is at the Visitors Center. The other two photos were also taken from the Visitors Center which houses the Indian Museum of North America. We enjoyed seeing the rare artifacts and beautiful works of art and learning more about the Native Americans. Anne

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota

After traveling 2,656 miles from Delray Beach, Fl, we made it to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. One of our goals on this trip was to tour this National Memorial and see the four great U.S presidents carved into the mountain. It was a breathing-taking view as we walked through the Avenue of Flags to the Grand View Terrace. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving this great memorial to our nation's foundation and growth in 1927 and the colossal carving was finished in 1941. We also enjoyed attending the evening lighting program held in the park's amphitheater. Can I sing a verse of "America The Beautiful" now? (just kidding-Anne)

Oskosh - War Birds

Oshkosh (by gosh)

Still in Wisconsin, it's on to Oskosh to the EAA fly in. There were 10,000 airplanes and 700,000 people for the week of the fly in. Many many motorhomes in a big camping area, all well organized. So much to do, highlights were, the historic warbirds, air shows and the Beach Boys gave a great concert. Anne took many, many pictures and here are three.

Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame

Family Photos

The Hunting "Shack"

Marathon Park

Wausau Wisconsin

Looking for cool weather, not the hot Florida weather we are used to, we arrive in Wausau with a 98 degree heat wave. (It was a dry heat). We were hosted by Anne's brother Grover and his lovely wife Pat. Grover is a hunter and a fisherman, the two of us went to see his hunting "shack" and played in the woods while Anne and Pat did some shopping.

Our hosts had many plans for us during our week stay in Wausau. One highlight was that we went to the Greenbay Packers hall of fame. Where I practiced the Lambo leap. (It's not so hard when the wall is only 4 feet tall).

Also on the agenda was a Cheese factory where we were introduced to cheese curds, very good and also squeaky when you eat them. Chris took us to a local Brewery where we saw the local beer being brewed. Free samples were allowed. Grover and I got in a round of golf, I only lost a half dozen golf balls. The weather had cooled off and it was very nice.

We stayed at the city park which had camping. It was very nice and heavily wooded. And close to Pat's cooking which was very good. By the way, Pat has a great sense of humor and we laughed a lot.

We also had a nice day with their daughter Chris and her family. Beautiful house, nice well behaved boys (I later heard that they were well behaved without even being threatened) Anne and I commented after we left their house that it was like visiting Ozzie and Harriet's family.

Chicago (from the car window)

Anne shot this as we passed by Chicago on the way to Wisconsin, too much traffic, and too much construction.. But we made it OK

Nappanee Indiana

We are now in Nappanee Indiana, home of Newmar, the company who made our motorhome. We visited the factory and saw the assembly line. The Amish community is big in this part of Indiana and that is the reason that our coach is called a Dutchstar. (The things we learn) We were very impressed with the company and the complexity of the production assembly. There is over 2 miles of wire in our motorhome...who would have thunk it!!! We also toured a bit around town and saw many horsecarts. Also had a very good Amish Dinner.