Devils Tower National Monument
The drive to Devils Tower is composed of rolling farmland. Perhaps that is what makes the massive stone outcropping all the more magnificent: it towers over the golden prairie.
Lexi Goforth
Lexi lives in a truck camper down by the river.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
As is noted by local reporters: this was a record low year for accidents. Congratulations? I guess all those creepy posters in the bathroom stalls made a positive difference for people's lives as opposed to my bowels.
Adams Museum
Adams Museum in the gem in the crown of Deadwood, South Dakota. Most every other part of this tourist town is missable but the Adams Museum justifies a detour. This extensive cabinet of curiosities encompasses gold nuggets, taxidermy oddities, antique counterfeiting tools, a plesiosaur, and a nudist colony. Never forget the nudist colony.
Deadwood, South Dakota
Fortunes were made here. Celebrities died here. The legend endures but the experience of Deadwood, South Dakota is...mixed.
Tri-State Museum
Next to the Geographic Center of the Nation (or, at least, its monument) is the Tri-State Museum. This one-room collection of community artifacts in Belle Fourche, South Dakota includes memorabilia and oddities from prehistoric fossils, cattle ranching, WWII, and modern industries.
Geographic Center of the Nation
I had always thought the center of the nation was was Kansas. Yet, there is a contender for the title. In driving through Belle Fourche, South Dakota, we encountered a large sign announcing a monument for the geographic center of the nation. We had to stop.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
We really aren't into visiting battlefields. Generally, they are macabre, empty fields with little to look at and much to get depressed about. But Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument has some striking points of interest and, frankly, we were driving right by.
Bridger Brewing Company
The Montana State Bozeman community has lucked out with the Bridger Brewing Company right across from campus. We were lucky having it right next to a Verizon retailer when mechanical crisis lead us to get a new phone.
Old Time Road Trip
Along with the Museum of the Rockies 300,000 objects spanning 500,000,000 years of history are examples of earlier nomadic equipment that is not that unlike today's features.
Museum of the Rockies
Bozeman, Montana has dinosaurs. The museum of the Rockies is where you find them. Compare T. rex skulls and the transition between an adolescent Triceratops to an adult. See paleontology in action at the show lab where paleontologists are absorbed in cleaning, preparing, and analyzing new fossil discoveries. My favorite curatorial flourish is the partial sculptures where half is a fully fleshed dinosaur with the other side being the bones in situ.