We drove another 500 miles today, pretty much straight through, and we made it home at around 7pm. We are so happy to be home, we really missed Montana, our home, and our family and friends.

What an awesome adventure we had! More than 11,000 miles, not including day trips, 33 states driven through and visited, and lots and lots of fuel burned. I'm so glad we were able to do it. We'll be doing some more posting on the impact of the trip soon.

Thanks for all that supported us and followed along with us on our adventures!

After a very long drive, we pulled into Rapid City late at night for basically a quick overnight stay, then we stopped by Mount Rushmore on our way home. At this point, we are ready to head home, so we aren't spending a lot of time sightseeing, as we've also already spend a couple of cumulative weeks here.

We did stop by Mitchell, South Dakota, which is home to the Corn Palace, one of those strange roadside attractions you see on TV. It's a building completely covered in corn of all types and colors. They were closed, so we didn't go inside, but we did get a good idea from the outside of the building.

We also discovered that late season and early morning visits to Mt. Rushmore have advantages...free parking and NO people. We basically had the whole place to ourselves. We took a look around, picked up some post cards, and we were off. The only downside is that the sculptor's studio was closed, but since we've been in there before, it wasn't a huge deal.

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