On the way we ran into construction where we turned off our car, got out and stretched, while waiting for a pilot car to guide the line of cars through a couple of miles of dirt road construction in and around the machines and vehicles doing the road work.
There are also many signs along the highways and byways that warn, we assume, in bad weather to go back. (Notice no trees anywhere.) Big sky country. Love the distant views.
Wyoming also has many oil rigs along here, the largest coal operation in the country, rail track through the open country and Halliburton is here too.
As we drove much of the road is...big sky, little road, and few cars. Speed limit is frequently 75 to 80 mph:
At the Edge of a Time Zone
by Jane Hoogestraat
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by Jane Hoogestraat
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Not the midnight sun exactly, or endless
summer,
just that extra hour holding steady, western
horizon stable, as though shadows won’t lengthen
when in August you can outrun the night
or feel as though you do, latitude in your favor,
just that extra hour holding steady, western
horizon stable, as though shadows won’t lengthen
when in August you can outrun the night
or feel as though you do, latitude in your favor,
North of Sioux City, the sky widens into
South Dakota,
turn west and you will think you could see all the way
to Wyoming, and if you drive long enough you will,
crossing the Missouri River, the bluffs gentle,
then the grasslands, the turnoffs for reservations.
turn west and you will think you could see all the way
to Wyoming, and if you drive long enough you will,
crossing the Missouri River, the bluffs gentle,
then the grasslands, the turnoffs for reservations.
As dusk approaches, you may pass a stone
house,
long deserted, a star carved over the door, a small pond,
wind stirring over it even now, forming a second thought,
a space you will carry within your speech,
your soul stirred by these great expanses.
long deserted, a star carved over the door, a small pond,
wind stirring over it even now, forming a second thought,
a space you will carry within your speech,
your soul stirred by these great expanses.
"At the Edge of a Time Zone" by Jane Hoogestraat from Border States. © BKMK Press, 2015. Reprinted with permission.
YOUR SOUL STIRRED BY THESE GREAT EXPANSES. . .
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We first went to the Crazy Horse Memorial near Keystone, SD but managed not to take any pictures on the iphone from which I can gain pix for the blog. So here's a postcard.
The head is much larger than the Mt. Rushmore heads. And the final statue is on the bottom left. The woman is the widow of the sculptor who had 10 children so they'd have some to finish the project for several generations. They have built the buildings for a college, tribal medical facility and tour center that are enormous. Still need funding to complete.
Close by is Mount Rushmore in Keystone, SD. Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln.
A person is the dot at the bottom of the page.
Since I was here the last time they added this stone arena for lazer light shows at night.
This memorial has a huge parking garage and entrance that sort of blocks the sculptures by Borghlum as you come up to it. 600 people worked on this as opposed to one family with no government funding on Crazy Horse.
We headed across SD toward the Badlands. Storm coming through. We missed it.
Before the Badlands National Park.
We came into the Badlands at Interior, SD just at Sunset with quite a few people on top of a hill. We just got into the restaurant before it closed at 9 pm. The Cedar Pass Cabins were really nice with frig, TV, wifi, nice bath though as you can imagine the water for the shower and toilet flush was sparse.
Sunset at the Badlands.
Headed to bed. Next post will show you the Badlands in the daylight.
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