Just as I was about to leave Wyoming we had just one more stop to make, "devil's tower"
we've made a 30 miles detour off the 90 highway, and finally this huge rock immerged in the distance. As it turns out "devil's tower" is the first national monument, by the way if you like you can climb this rock as this fellow in the picture below does.
Our last night in Wyoming we've spent in a local motel in the town on Newcastle, the nice lady at the front desk suggested us to visit "Jewel Cave" it's just couple of miles once you enter South Dakota, After two extra large pancakes we said farewell to Wyoming and entered South Dakota.
I've parked the bike at the entrance to Jewel Cave visitors center taking the stairs a sign prompt the visitors to have their jacket with them as the temperature inside the cave are below 10 degrees.
Luckily we got the last two tickets to the 10:40 tour, taking the elevator 22 stories below the surface, we entered one of the largest caves in the world, so far "only" 241 kilometers of underground paths have been mapped, the assumption is that only 3% of the cave had been discovered!
I could feel the temperature drops instantly but the remarkable site reveled made me forget all about it. Our tour took about an hour and a half, where we could see all sorts of stalactite, crystals and other strange looking curved stones.
Next up was Crazy-Horse, this monument to some Native American chief who was murdered, so far only the head of Crazy-Horse was curved.
It took around 60 years to get to this point, the work was done mostly by a single man dedicated his life for the job, this man is no longer with us but his 10 kids have taken the work of completing the statue on themselves.
Besides the statue the visitors center seemed to me like a huge warehouse storing everything made by Native Americans.
Last was Mount Rushmore, the monument is much smaller than CrazyHorse but at least it's completed!
Before we could checked in into our random motel, we had to past through "Bad Land" another national park, speed limit 65 miles, the road was deserted and the bike demanded going faster, at some point I hear Lior's voice over the headset: "Say the police car behind us is singling us to pull over?". Looking at my mirror is see red and blue flashing, so we've slowed down and pulled over to the shoulder. Pulling my helmet off turning the engine off the officer was standing next to me, "Do you have your license on you?", handing him my driving license he asks "Where are you guys from?", Israel I replay, "Where are you two heading?" Honestly I didn't know where are we exactly heading to.. So I said New-York.
Luckily for us we got off with a warning, I guess he didn't want to go through the trouble of giving a ticket to tourists.
Our next destination is Chicago Illinois, but to get there we need to pass through: South Dakota, Minneapolis and Wisconsin. The first two were boring, corn fields for miles and miles, once we entered Wisconsin the weather changed and trees were added to the view, as we got closer to the Mississippi river the humidity was unbridle the river itself is huge, we've finally stopped at the town of Tomah, a small town of about 10,000 people.
The next morning it was raining hard, we rode for about two hours in the rain, during this time I received a phone call from my parents, talking to them over the headset while driving in the rain was nice.
We finally made it to Chicago and we're staying at Lior's family here, it's nice to stay in a house instead of a motel for a change, it's Friday evening and we're about to have dinner and do Kidosh, I really miss Friday dinner with the family.
We're thinking about spending the next two days here, should be fun.
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