Five go wild on the World

The New Zealand family of 5 go travelling freestyle around Europe and the USA for 8 months.

23 July 2006


Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota -

This is the world's largest sculpture and is close to the more famous Mt Rushmore. It cost our car $22 US to get in (free if you are a Native American Indian). In 1939 the Sioux Indian asked a famous sculptor called Ziolkowski to create a sculpture of Indian chief Crazy Horse who died in battle in his 30's. The sculpture (model is at the front, sculpture in rear) is a work in progress and so far only the face has been completed. Ziolkowski died in 1982 and 7 of his 10 children continue with the creation. There is no expected completion date. Free rocks from the dynamite blasts are available so naturally our 3 took one each - now I will have to find a way to 'lose' them before our trip to London. To give you an idea of scale the 4 Mt Rushmore heads can easily fit into Crazy Horse's one head.

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