Ben, Laura, and I road tripped it out to Montana to meet up with a bunch of family and also to see every “World’s Largest Whatever”.
First stop: “fixing” Ben’s car with duct tape.
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Second stop: Green Giant statute? Yeah, I have no idea.
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Third stop: World’s Largest Bull head. Unfortunately it was closed.
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I’M A DINOSAUR
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Next, the Corn Palace. I thought their cop car was labelled “Corn Enforcement”, but unfortunately not.
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Across the street, this inexplicable facade:
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City Hall in Mitchell, SD is in the same building as the Corn Palace.
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Random shots…
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The badlands! YES
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Laura is an old tyme photographer.
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Arrival at the ranch!
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Hiking out into the ranchlands…
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…rolling in poo…
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At the rocks.
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Some random macro stuff.
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Wooo!
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Atop the Billings rims.
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Off into the Beartooth Pass
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Which was unfortunately closed…
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But there was still a mountain river to hike along.
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The two weimarieners (man I have no idea how to spell that)
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Snow covering the tent, yeesh!
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Good times.
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Farewell Montana and all the lovely people! We’ll be back soon…
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