It's been a while since the end of our honeymoon trip (a long while), and we still have't put up pictures from the last 4 days of our trip. Well today is the day! We wanted to update our blog because we are heading on a Spring Break trip to Mammoth Cave, KY next week.
In the morning we headed for South Dakota. The weather was absolutely beautiful by the time we made it to the SD line.
We wanted to stop at the Jewel Cave National Monument, but we did not have the time and we were already going to the Wind Cave later that day.
About 1:30 we arrived at Wind Cave National Park and headed out on the Fairgrounds tour, which was about an hour and a half long.
Wind Cave does not look like the vast majority of other caves in that it has very few large caverns, and mostly small passageways and small rooms. The major feature of the cave was the "boxwork" in the ceilings. You can read more about it here.
We had the America the Beautiful Pass for this trip and therefore we got into all the National Parks for our one time fee. Mount Rushmore tried to get around this by having a $10 "parking fee," so we drove down the road, pulled off and took our pictures without ever having to enter the park.
We saw the beginnings of the Crazy Horse Monument, which will be gigantic when it is done.
Here is the first Wall Drug sign we saw...it was about 40 miles outside of town and there were around 2 per mile until we got into town.
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