That whole area was just so insane,,Was definitely our favorite part of the trip !!

I think that sparkly rock is mica?? We had to fold the mirrors on the truck in to do the tunnel.😮😂 Really interesting dialogue regarding Crazy Horse.💙Mr Sweet Face will NOT be ignored!😂

Mr Sweetface sounds like he is saying Mom. So cute.

We rode that whole area on an epic cross country motorcycle trip. I loved watching this video- the places brought back so many wonderful memories.

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

Very cool!

Heyy Mela, Don, Pizzicato and Mr SweetFace, amazing scenic views the formation of the rocks, thanks for the information on Crazy Horse, Mr SweetFace always makes my day, stay safe out there ❤

The shiny flakey rock could be mica.

I started watching you guys because of the bus build videos... I'm not normally one to keep following folks after the build along their journeys. I'm just not a "Travel Vlog Watcher"... But you two are fun to watch. :) Look forward to more. Cheers!

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Glad you stuck around for our shenanigans :)

I think it's a good idea. Native Americans need something big and bold to embrace their culture. As to defacing mountains ??? Hasn't nature already done that. That's how the rocks became that way. It is not a negative impact on the environment to have those very same rocks sculptured to form an image of a culture that has existed there for so long. To leave something recognisably positive for this millennia.

Cats are so insistent when they want something I have two and a husky. They all talk😂😂 thank you for sharing the information about Crazy Horse. We took a family trip to the Black Hills an it was amazing!

wow, what a place to have your lunch. it is an amazing place and the drive looked interesting and the scenery was wonderful. I know there is a lot of controversy over the Mount Rushmore sculpture but I don't think it as defacing the mountain it's more like enhancing it, You had some fantastic scenery as usual. Climbing through the rocks to get that amazing view was well worth the climb. Have a wonderful week.

Thanks for sharing this journey with me 💕. That tunnel was scary. Mucho Love From Your Friend In Michigan Tam 💜💜💜💕

I'm one of the drivers who drive buses through the needle tunnel. I have been doing it for 7 summers. Sylvan Lake where you had lunch is where they filmed the scene from the movie "National Treasure2" where they are climbing on rocks looking for the eagle.

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

Oh cool! Which model is it that you drive?

Awesome video!! That looked like an amazing drive (especially the tunnel!)😍 We added sylvan lake to our travel list a few months back after someone showed us photos at our sylvan lake 🤣, we thought it was so cool to see it in your video. Thanks for sharing!

We were there in June for our second time. Stayed in Custer. Really like the area!

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! It is a really beautiful area

Hahahaha... Mr. Sweetface!!! Loved all the info and perspectives on Crazy Horse... I can see how it's controversial. And Naked Acres sounds amazing!

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

You would love it!

soo epik lovet

excellent video

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They have been working on the Crazy Horse monument for over 30 years.

Just keep shooting the video just cause the cat made some noise you're not Spielberg for crying out loud Mr. sweet face as part of the video he wants to talk also. 😂

I don’t think they should deface the mountains.

😁 hello Mel and Don love your videos. Do you think Mr sweetface is saying "oh nooo!I " 😃. Followed your journey has even lead my friend to hire a campervan for a festival we went to. It wasn't perfect , but we'll probably buy one , maybe that has already been renovated to go on holidays to the English coasts side 😁 who knows!

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

Love it!! Ha ha Mr Sweetface definitely has a wide range of meows

@furrymonkeything

10 ай бұрын

@@Rehabit8 😁❤️

Hello 👋 ❤❤❤❤

LOL love the blooper at the end, come on Mela you should know better to tell a furbaby to swoosh, they WILL always get the last word in hahah..

Hi Mela and Don. Loved your video this week. I didn't know that the needles existed in USA only off the Isle of Wight. I think the red Indian culture should be celebrated as they live on the land centuries before whites came.

@terrybrannigan9963

10 ай бұрын

Don't call north american Indigenous that.

We were just there and we didn’t hear about any controversy-went in the tour and Went back for the lazer show -The Native American people started this not white people -Our guide was a Lakota and they support it -it is the Lakota people’s land -Perhaps there is jealousy on the part of other tribes -I don’t feel anything is being defaced -I believe it is a good thing to remember American History from both sides -Is your friend a Native American from a different tribe? 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

Well of course they don't share the controversy at the memorial, and as we said, there are apparently those in Lakota Tribe who support it and those who oppose it. We can see both sides, it was started for good reason and does some good within the community, but I can also see why some oppose it. You can google it and find many articles written on this. Here's a little from on article www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/who-speaks-for-crazy-horse (below is from the New Yorker article, I encourage you to go read the full article) There are many Lakota who praise the memorial. Charles (Bamm) Brewer, who organizes an annual tribute to Crazy Horse on the Pine Ridge Reservation, joked that his only problem with the carving is that “they didn’t make it big enough-he was a bigger man than that to our people!” I spoke with one Oglala who had named her son for Korczak, and others who had scattered family members’ ashes atop the carving. Some are grateful that the face offers an unmissable reminder of the frequently ignored Native history of the hills, and a counterpoint to the four white faces on Mt. Rushmore. “It’s the one large carving that they can’t tear down,” Amber Two Bulls, a twenty-six-year-old Lakota woman, told me. But others argue that a mountain-size sculpture is a singularly ill-chosen tribute. When Crazy Horse was alive, he was known for his humility, which is considered a key virtue in Lakota culture. He never dressed elaborately or allowed his picture to be taken. (He is said to have responded, “Would you steal my shadow, too?”) Before he died, he asked his family to bury him in an unmarked grave. There’s also the problem of the location. The Black Hills are known, in the Lakota language, as He Sapa or Paha Sapa-names that are sometimes translated as “the heart of everything that is.” A ninety-nine-year-old elder in the Sicongu Rosebud Sioux Tribe named Marie Brush Breaker-Randall told me that the mountains are “the foundation of the Lakota Nation.” In Lakota stories, people lived beneath them while the world was created. Nick Tilsen, an Oglala who runs an activism collective in Rapid City, told me that Crazy Horse was “a man who fought his entire life” to protect the Black Hills. “To literally blow up a mountain on these sacred lands feels like a massive insult to what he actually stood for,” he said. In 2001, the Lakota activist Russell Means likened the project to “carving up the mountain of Zion.” Charmaine White Face, a spokesperson for the Sioux Nation Treaty Council, called the memorial a disgrace. “Many, many of us, especially those of us who are more traditional, totally abhor it,” she told me. “It’s a sacrilege. It’s wrong.”

Wash that car, lol.

@Rehabit8

10 ай бұрын

lol I know it's probably the worst it's ever been but towing the car behind bus on the dirt road to where we were staying just kicked up so much dirt. So while I cringe seeing our jeep so dirty on camera, there was no point in washing it as it would just happen as we leave our camp again

MT. Rushmore was defaced!!! Brilliant sculpture as the world agrees when they come to visit. Crazy Horse regardless what those opposing the work, is created by a white man who put his heart and soul into this project. I'm sure Crazy horse was proud of his people, and the world should admire the schupure just as Rushmore. This is only my opinion, so if you respond BE NICE!!!