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The second carved mountain. Mount Rushmore is 16 miles or so northeast from the site of the Crazy Horse Memorial – about a 25-to-35 minute-drive – depending on the vehicles ahead of you once you get onto road 244. Coming …

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I expected Monday would be one of the more ambitious days of the trip and it proved to be just that. I started a bit later than I’d planned because I miscalculated the impact of the time change when I’d …

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It’s a new year and time for a new trip. For 2014 I opted to stay in the U S – it’s a big country, after all.  Initially, I only planned to drive the Great River Road or G R …