Mount Rushmore National Memorial 

Awesome! Did you get to say hi to Adam and Abby? Did you see them walking around at all? It's a small world, I'm telling ya. 😸

@@mannys9130 I never even noticed them, as I discovered this channel after I came back from the trip. But it really is a small world. Cool.

Takes me back.

I'm really surprised it's not covered in red paint by now.

Well it's like this- The Government will never allow monuments like this this to ever be made again so enjoy them while they still exist

what a memorable trip!!

I believe the cave/tunnel was meant to be a vault containing historical documents and an explanation to future inhabitants what the monument was for and who the subjects actually were in case everyone forget about the US. It'll take 2.5 million years for the noses to wear away completely from erosion. Consider 500,000 years for it to be eroded enough that the people are unrecognizable, and that's a loooooooong time. The US won't be around anymore at that point, that's for sure, and nobody will care about these 4 men.

I was going to ask this as well! 😺

Crazy horse.

@@frankconley9715 yup that's the man,

Yep! The Crazy Horse Monument is what you're thinking of, and it was started not too far away from Mt. Rushmore. The Lakota Indians really did not want Mt. Rushmore to be built. The federal government gave all of that land and those mountains to the Lakota Indians permanently in a treaty in the late 1800s. When it was found that there was gold in the area, the government took the privilege of changing their mind 🙄 and stole the land back again for themselves. That's why Mt. Rushmore was able to be built at all, and the Lakota begged to not build it on their sacred mountains. Nobody cared about what the Indians said or wanted back then. :( Crazy Horse Monument would be much larger than Mt. Rushmore when finished. To be truthful, Mt. Rushmore isn't finished either! The sculpting was meant to go down to the presidents' waistlines. 😯 It just wasn't ever completed to that degree.

@@mannys9130 thanks Manny( I am in Western Australia) I vaguely remembered seeing a doco many years ago about it but had forgotten the details, it just came to mind when Adam and Abbey went to Mt Rushmore. I suppose by the time they possibly review these comments and had posted this video they will be to far past the area to backtrack. It is a shame both of our countries didn't appreciate the original inhabitants more, I'm sure we both would live in vastly different countries... Thanks for your explanation, muchly appreciated Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺 😁

We bought it from one of the visitors center. They sell them at all of the national park book stores.

September 9th

Yeah, it's nearby.

Understandable why the individuals depicted are not of much significance to a foreigner. Still though, is it not fascinating to a foreigner regardless of subjects due to the simple feat of engineering and construction involved? It's a 4-person sculpture in a mountain! 😺 Blasted bit by bit, and hand carved by men dangling from ropes in the early 1900s! It's really amazing that it exists at all and it's fascinating how it came to be, even if the presidents don't mean much to you. The same way I'd love to see Big Ben, the Kremlin, Christ the Redeemer, Hagia Sophia, Auschwitz, St. Peter's Basilica, the Burj Khalifa, 1 of the 4 copies of the Magna Carta, etc. I'm not British, so Big Ben and the Magna Carta don't really mean a whole lot to me other than the Magna Carta's influence on my country's Constitution and my Bill of Rights protections. I'm not Russian, so the Kremlin means nothing to me. I'm not religious whatsoever, so Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, the Hagia Sophia, and St. Peter's Basilica mean nothing to me either. I'm not Jewish nor German, but I'd still like to pay respects and witness Auschwitz with my own eyes, as I'm quite a WW2 history buff and it's important not to forget that it operated not even 100 years ago. I'm not a citizen of the UAE so the Burj Khalifa means nothing to me. Unfortunately, since I'm gay I will likely never be able to see the Burj Khalifa or the Kremlin in person myself. :( Oh well. These things are all foreign to me, but they are all very interesting and have historical or technological significance to mankind so I'd love to say I was there to see them in person.

Lol. More than half of the US would join the Lakota in protest to demolish the entire thing if you did that...

Yes, for all of his achievements like ummm... ummmmm. The attempted coup? The err thing... which was err great I guess.

Maybe put his backside on the backside, with a microphone. 😸 Got my vote the first time, but Jorgensen got it instead the second time. Sad who we get a choice to pick from out of 320,000,000 people.

You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed it.

Oh yea, the ice cream is really good!!!

You took the words right out of my mouth, I was moments away from posting the exact same thing

They also accept credit & debit cards.

Yep, granite for sure. Not sure which subtype of granite specifically, but it's definitely a granite mountain.