Devil’s Tower and Petrified Forest Site
Driving out to Devil’s Tower National Monument pulls up my awe at the people who made these trips before superhighways and big cars. Shank’s mare or even riding on horse back would make the trip more than I’d probably want to do. On our drive through Custer State Park, we met two beautifully restored Ford Model T’s (or their equivalents, not knowing anything about old cars). That evening, they were parked at the motel next door in Keystone, so I could see their California licenses plates. Did they drive those open top roadsters all the way? Without AC? I assume via blue highways because I doubt they can drive the required minimum 40 miles per hour for the interstates. How long would that take? It’s 1200 miles one way to Sacramento, farther to other places. Perhaps a whole summer to come and go. Lots of bugs along the way, if our windshield is any indication. We were lucky to get the last parking place at Devil’s Tower, only because Grant went in the out to double back and grab it ...