Look,Mom! Faces on the mountain!!!!

Sorry I left you all hanging last night!

We stopped in Billings Montana but the hotel's internet access crashed and I couldn't get on to blog.

We started the day out with a visit to Mount Rushmore. It was so neat to see in person what I had only read about in history books.

Most of the attractions in the little town of Keystone, SD that accompany Mt. Rushmore were closed until the end of April, but we made the best of the day and explored the trails around the mountain, stopping for photo ops of course.

Hwy 212...................

Where the deer and the antelope play.....and nothing else!

We crossed into Wyoming on lonely Hwy 212 and before we knew it, we were through it and into Montana.

Would you look at this? I mean seriously look at it.

Can you imagine living here?

Every once in a while, we'd see a mail box on this road ( hwy 212 ) and a dirt driveway leading off to the left or right and then far off in the distance we'd see a house. The kids and I would spend the next few miles talking about what it must be like to live in this kind of solitude.

I suppose the peace would be alluring. It would definitely take a few weeks to detox from our dependence on entertainment, but I imagine that after the shock of no shopping at the mall or pizza delivery, we might actually enjoy this kind of lifestyle. But then again, I really like people and I love interacting with them and meeting new personalities, so I'm not sure I'm cut out for the kind of loneliness that I assume goes along with living so far away from civilization.

Madison took all of the scenery photos. I especially love this one!