Rest days are always well deserved. We've been riding for five days now and our next stint is six days. We used Susan's car and went back to Custer State Park in hopes of seeing the bison. Sure enough, we saw hundreds of them, so many we were in a bison traffic jam. They just walk across the road right in front, behind and next to the car. So close you could almost touch them, but you may regret the outcome. They're some big animals. The park has a roundup in the fall to brand the new ones, vaccinate them and determine which ones they are keeping and which will be sold. The park can only safely overwinter about 967 head. The summer numbers climb to 1500 head.
Then we headed off to Mt. Rushmore for a quick visit. It's amazing that someone carved those heads out of the rock. Even though Washington is the one farthest on the left, Jefferson was originally to the left of George but the rock was bad and the carving was destroyed.
The rest of the day was relaxing and tomorrow we have another century ride through the Badlands.
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