Windpower at work in Minnesota near the South Dakota border on Highway 14.
The Sonsallas are about to enter South Dakota.
Nancy watches Amy go for a hole-in-one.
Amy exists a replica of the school Laura Ingalls Wilder taught in.
Welcome to the Caroline and Charles Ingalls' homestead in De Smet, South Dakota.
The Surveyor House the Ingalls lived in for a year in De Smet.
Four of the five Cottonwood trees Pa plants for the ladies in his life - Ma,
Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace.
Amy tries to get in the way of the 5th Cottonwood tree Pa planted!.
Nancy and Travis cool off in the shade of Pa's Cottonwoods.
We drove back into Huron, SD so I could smile with the boys...
The capitol building in Pierre, SD.
A good-looking lobbyist rests on the marble steps of the capitol while seeking out
a Senator.
Role reversal: The good-looking lobbyist is on the floor while the Senator is
watching above her in the Galley.
A breath-taking picture of the Badlands. We actually drove down this - you can see
the road about midway down on the right-most peak.
Another picture of the Badlands.
Travis points out the cars off in the distance - our starting point.
Nancy stops for a drink from her platypus water bottle.
Another fabulous Badlands picture.
Nancy and Amy start to set up the tents. The bears didn't chase Amy and Travis off; it
was the rain. Nancy stayed while the Sonsallas went "yipe-yipe-yipe" all the way to a
Best Western.
Nancy takes a photograph of the wild horses in the Wild Horse Sanctuary.
A few of the kinda-friendly wild horses walk about the group.
The "Tree of Life" where Native American men (and women) of high pain tolerance
perform a dance with the hooks in their chests tied to the tree and they lean back.
A sweat lodge. Notice the buffalo skull near the entrance.
Petrified rocks in the Wild Horse sanctuary.
Fifty-two wooly mammoths have been counted thus far at The Mammoth Site.
Mammoth fossil found (and left there) at The Mammoth Site.
More fossils uncovered.
And more fossils.
Amy poses with a mammoth thigh bone.
An actual mammoth leg bone.
Overlooking the volunteers carefully digging and searching for more fossils.
Happy Uncle Sam in the foreground poses with the Crazy Horse Memorial.
The Crazy Horse Memorial.
A sculpture of what the finished Crazy Horse Memorial will look like.
Mount Rushmore.
Some working models the men actually used out on Mt. Rushmore.
An earlier model that was not chosen. This looks interesting except the third
figure looks like he's trying to listen in on the conversation.
Mt. Rushmore close-up.
A 1:12 model that was used as the basis for sculpting the mountain. As you can see,
the final product never was completed...
Amy and Travis on the 1880 train..
A refurbished box car.
Here comes the 1880 train!
Looking at the engine while riding the 1880 train.
Old telegraph poles and wires along the tracks.
Harney Peak off in the distance. Nancy was climbing to this point while Amy and
Travis rode the 1880 train.
An old, abandoned cabboose that rode on narrow track.
Amy, this pet won't fit into the car!.
Um, the back of his shirt said "Go wrestle a gator".
