Nice Ass!
I can say that South Dakota has some of the finest asses in the states.
While driving through Custer State Park (yes, the same General Custer that made a career limiting decision at the Battle of Little Big Horn) they would walk right up to the car and even stick their heads inside if you weren’t fast enough to get the windows up! Probably a by-product of idiot tourists supplementing their natural diets of grass and berries with nachos and chips.
I managed to get this picture just before a 4 inch long alien black tongue came out probing for salt and leaving a slime trail on the inside of our van. Ahhhh….nothing like the smell of donkey when you are living in a van for the next 7 days! 
Despite the poor oral hygiene, our visitors did help to break up the drive and to lift our spirits after a disappointingly very brief visit to the Crazy Horse Monument. The monument, which was supposed to be the Native American’s answer to Mount Rushmore, was almost laughable. I agree 110% with the cause, and like every other person in the Southeast I claim to have Cherokee blood descent, but not enough to pay the $27 they wanted per car just to drive up to it! Oh…and never mind the fact that pretty much all that is there is half a face and a hole in the mountain. What a bargain - $27 to look at a hole and a nose protruding unnaturally out of the rock face. We pretty much did what every other car in line did, gasped in shock at the man taking money and did a big no-thank-you U-turn to get out of there. Work began in 1998, so for the last 10 years it seems that they have been working on the most important parts….the gift shop. At least they have their priorities straight….or maybe they have an IBM project management team overseeing the effort? OK - that was low.
With the subject of this post being about “wild asses” the potential for bad sexual connotations and distaste was almost intoxicating for me - but I showed constraint since one day my little niece and nephew might join my family in reading it. Every American boy still has a little bit of Bevis and Butthead shaking furiously and flaring nostrils inside of him. My reputation is too far gone with sister and parents, but I still have a clean slate with the kiddos.
Tags: custer state park, Greg Rodgers, Travel, USA
October 6th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
When my wife and I took the kids up there back in the mid 90’s the crazy horse monument was just a idea. That picture is nothing like what they were planning. Either that or it is a long way from being completed.
As far as the Ass goes. When we were up there the road was blocked by a couple of them and another one shoved his head in the car and helped himself to my son’s chips.
However the funniest part of that trip is when a heard of Bison had the road blocked and we got out of the car to take video. One of the young bison came up behind my wife and basically goosed her.. was crying we were laughing so hard. Apparently they are quite accustom to people, and despite the obvious negatives about feeding them people still do.
Don’t forget Deadwood.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Yeah, it is supposed to be Crazy Horse riding on a horse one day, I’m just shocked that so much is charged for so little at this point! It is going to take them quite a long time to finish it seems.
Wow - not many people can say that they survived a goosing from a wild Bison!
October 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Too funny!
October 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am
The entry fee was paid and I toured the Crazy Horse complex. No regrets. There is more to the monument than the sculpture. There is the story about how the sculpture came to be, the history of the sculpture, the native American (Indian) art, and more.
Considering that it took over a hundred years to complete some of the cathedrals of Europe, a hundred years to carve Crazy Horse out of a mountain might be a reasonable time frame. Perhaps the 100 year construction is a marketing plan to keep people coming back to see the progress. If it were complete, there would be only reason for visiting one time.
To me the humor was the large box of rock that had been blown off the mountain to make the sculpture. Another marketing plan was to take a rock home as a souvenir and leave a donation for the privilege. That is a great way to dispose of all the rock that is accumulating at the base of the mountain.
And now it’s time to get my ass out of here. I’ve already written far too much…
January 10th, 2009 at 5:08 am
when i read the title of the post I expected something else, you disappointed me mate LOL