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Ben's 2017 Route 66 Adventure

Day 37
Wednesday, June 7

Starting in Spearfish SD

Deadwood SD

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Keystone SD

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
#18 National Park/Monument for this trip

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The first glimpse of Mount Rushmore

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When Sandy & I were here in 1998

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I guess you could call this a "selfie"

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Mount Rushmore from the back/side

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Custer SD

Crazy Horse Memorial
#19 National Park/Monument for this trip

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Custer State Park
"The Needles" Highway

#20 Park for this trip

Yikes! Reminiscent of the Drive Through Tree. This happened at about 1 mph!

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The Needles

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Oelrichs SD

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That's Nebraska on the horizon

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Nebraska
State #23 for this trip.
New State #12 for this car, and the last one:
It has now been through ALL of the contiguous 48 States!

Ironically, Nebraska was also the last of the 48 States for the 97 C5 that preceded this car!

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(Below is the crossing into Nebraska in 2002)

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Chadron NE

Time for a cold one!

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End of Day 37

226.3 miles for the day

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That's 9225.0 miles from Chicago start

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