Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Crazy Horse

I've been told by more than a few friends (and you know who you are) that I need to see Crazy Horse . . . and a few people were shocked that we didn't see it when we were at Rushmore years ago. So today I make the decision that no matter what we're going to see the Indian carved into the mountain. We were told that Crazy Horse is on the other side of Rushmore . . . well that was a lie . . . it's actually a 20 minute drive and more than a few turns. We get to Crazy Horse and I fully expect to see a beautiful carving of an Indian riding a wild horse . . . but NO!!! They only have the face completed and the rest of the project is sitting there in stone waiting to be carved. The artist started this 55 years ago and they are continuing to work on it. What??! It's not finished? I decided I'm not paying $30 to go see a project that's not completed . . . if I want to see incomplete projects I could just walk around my house and look at them all . . . hell if I charged everyone $30 I could actually get started on some of them. So for 55 years they've been charging people to view Crazy Horse and they don't have the funding to finish it? AND it was packed there . . . apparently everyone else has friends who have guilted them into seeing this. We did a U turn in the parking lot and drove on to the most amazing cave we've ever seen. I'm going to attach the photo that I've seen for years of Crazy Horse and if you note in the background you can see a profile that's all that's carved so far.


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