We spent the afternoon at the Mammoth Dig Site in Hot Springs, SC, the night at the Super 8 next door and supper at Woolly's Grill and Cellar. Expensive of course, steakhouses generally are and more so in a place by a motel. They didn't have an extensive menus, but Jim got his favorite, a slab of prime rib and I was able to make a meal from the 'salad and side' bar. The baked potatoes were especially good. Jim brought part of his prime rib home. We are both trying ot eat less and it's beginning to show. We can't eat as much as we used to and we both lost weight before we started this trip. We are wondering now, just how much we'll bring back with us.
We were at this spot in 1986 and it wasn't such a big commercialized tourist attraction then. I don't have a clear memory of what it looked like then. Since we were there, they have dug out many bones for their archives and for other museums and archeologists as well. Jim was more interested in how they dig out the bones, an ongoing tedious and careful work.
A whole mammoth skeleton
On the Road to the Crazy Horse Monument
We intended to drive north through Wind Cave State Park on the way to Mt. Rushmore, but a road closure changed our plans and we turned away from there and went toward the Crazy Horse Memorial instead. That is one of the benefits of having no set itinerary.
Smoky Haze
Coyote
The first of the buffalo
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