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  3. Aug 6 - TuesdayAug 6 - Tuesday
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up early.. left the others in bed. Off to Rapid City, through Keystone, down to Custer State Park, the Needles Highway, and finally to Mt. Rushmore for an evening show..
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very cool bridge ahead...
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every roadside bar/restaurant has something going on...
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the first of many tunnels to come
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main st. Keystone, SD... next time we're going to stop here for awhile, but can't today - too much to see!
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entrance to Mt. Rushmore - but we're not going there yet. we're heading down to Custer first...
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Birch Trees! we haven't seen anything except Pine Trees the whole day!
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entering Black Hills National Forest...
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get used to seeing roads like this.... curve after curve after curve, and around every turn is another beautiful sight..
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kinda cool to think that these roads are isolated all winter! wouldn't it be fun to take a snowmobile through them? Or an ATV?
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our first switchback bridge... drive under, around, and over
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coming around
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almost right over the road
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another switchback bridge ahead
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Straight down off the side of the road - we just drove up those roads down there
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roads on top of roads with no guardrails
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our 2nd tunnel... but this one is much cooler! One lane
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you have to honk your horn before entering. This was a problem - my horn is broke!
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we made it out the other side.. people stop here to look back through the tunnel
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looking back through the tunnel...
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looking through the tunnel you can see Mt. Rushmore in the distance!
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we climbed up a rock wall to a lookout area on top of the tunnel for an absolutely stunning view of Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills... there were only two other people who climbed up here
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and they took our picture for us!
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the granite looks like it is covered in Gold!
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