DAY THREE: Thursday 19 August 2010.
We drive from Billings, Montana to Rapid City, South Dakota. It is an all-day journey. We detour from I-90 to visit Devil's Tower National Monument, which is my favorite place we visit.
We are able to walk around the base of the basalt columns. We scramble over some of the lowest rocks of the boulder field. The trees are filled with prayer bundles and prayer cloths left behind by Native Americans as acts of worship and ritual. The day is hot, but not oppressively so.
It was hard not to reference scenes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, although the magnitude and scale of Devil's Tower create a sense of awe that cannot be captured on film. It needs to be experienced.
The day ended as many of them will: with dinner and a swim in the hotel's pool. This is The Child's favorite part of the vacation. The Child could live in the chlorine-blue waters.
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