This is the Naked Mormon History travel log cross-country style for March 24th,

sorry, March 23rd, 2017.

Today was a bit of a traveling day.

I spent a total of about 13 and a half hours in the car, but of course I couldn't spend a day

driving across the country without making

a couple of stops. Now, I know this is a Mormon history tour, but unfortunately across South

Dakota, there aren't too many Mormon history hotspots. But what I did hit was Mount Rushmore,

which was surprisingly anticlimatic. It's not quite as grandiose as all of the pictures

that I've seen of it are. However, it was still a very beautiful monument, and I'm not saying any of

this to disparage the beauty that is encapsulated in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in

the sculpture of Mount Rushmore.

But it was really still cool to see this national monument and, you know, kind of walk around the little museum that they have there and whatnot.

It was interesting to say the least.

And then, of course, I hopped back on the road because I still had eight and a half, almost nine hours ahead of me in order to get to Minneapolis where I'm spending the night with my co-host, Marie Kent.

She's just so awesome for her giving me the couch to sleep on for the night.

It's awful nice of her.

But of course, on the drive back, or on the drive to Minneapolis, my GPS estimated that I was going to be there, be here, I guess I should say, at 11 o'clock at night, which is a bit of a problem because Marie has two cute little boys and I didn't want to wake them up.

Little Malcolm and Oliver, she's cute little buggers.

But if any of you have driven across southern Wyoming, you know that there's Little America,

Wyoming.

And it's just in this crop out of the middle of nowhere.

There's nothing in apropos of absolutely zero civilization anywhere near it.

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