Our visit to Mount Rushmore — long a bucket list item for us both — was cut short due to the large crowds of mostly non mask-wearing bikers visiting from nearby Sturgis. Since Koda wasn’t allowed up in the Memorial area anyway, we each took a turn going up to snap a few photos but then we quickly left. There was no way we were going to hang out in a large crowd even though…
Along the way to the Badlands, we stopped in Chamberlain, South Dakota, specifically to see Dignity of Earth and Sky, a soaring sculpture of a native woman standing high on a bluff above the Missouri River. The artwork is a powerful tribute to the courage and perseverance of a group that’s far too often overlooked, the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations who are indigenous to South Dakota. Dignity…