Escorted Parks and Monuments tour, 2011.
These stories are all about my first escorted coach tour. It started in Denver, Colorado, and finished in Las Vegas, Nevada. I also added an extension to stay in San Francisco for a few days.
I visited many different National and State Parks and many National and State Monuments. I saw some of America's most remarkable scenery and natural wonders before meeting a cousin I never knew I had until a few days before I went on this trip.
Photos from the National Parks and Monuments tour.
Denver, Colorado, was the starting point for my National Monuments and Parks tour in 2011.
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I stayed in a hotel just outside the Custer State Park at Keystone, and it seemed very familiar. I am sure I once stayed there on a road trip in the late 1980s with my friend Alistar Parry.
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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota.
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The Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills in Custer County, South Dakota. It will depict the Oglala Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, riding a horse and pointing into the distance.
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The Tatanka Story of the Bison Visitor Centre had a few things to look around on my visit. There were native Indians on hand to tell you their history and give more information about the story of the bison.
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We were not scheduled to visit Devils Tower National Monument. We were supposed to be going to the site of the battle of Custer's Last Stand, but due to landslides, we couldn't make it.
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I went to look around Deadwood, South Dakota after our tour coach stopped at our hotel in Lead. We were given 20 minutes to rest, and our coach driver offered to drop us off in Deadwood.
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I flew over Monument Valley when I took a sightseeing flight on a De Havilland Canada aeroplane as part of my holiday in 2011. The people I was going with boarded the small aircraft for the flight in which everyone had a window seat.
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While staying in Las Vegas, Nevada, I stayed at the Flamingo Hotel. I have been to Las Vegas a few times previously and have seen most of the tourist sites, and I have stayed in lots of different hotels.
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I added a stopover in San Francisco, California, to my Monuments and Parks tour in 2011 and went there after visiting Las Vegas.
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