OK, its kind of late and we just got the internet working so I'm gonna make this sort of quick, even though I took a 4.5 hour nap today and probably won't be able to fall asleep anyways.

Yesterday we rode through the Black Hills National Forest, stopping at Mount Rushmore, which was really amazing.  It was made especially amazing because while we were there, there was a major protest by Green Peace.  It was really perfect timing by us as the whole thing took place for pretty much the two hours while we were there.  I guess this protest has been pretty big news so maybe you've already heard about it... So when we got there, the mountain was normal- pristine and huge.  Then, we saw some people repelling down Abe Lincoln's face.  We overheard a tour guide say that it was just some sort of routine maintenance.  After about a half hour or so, they busted out a huge banner and after it unfurled, we could read "America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians, Stop Global Warming" with a huge picture of Obama.  It was really pretty amazing watching these guys get this thing over the whole mountain as it took some time and at one point one of the guys who was hanging from the corner was just being whipped around in the air.  After quite some time of it being up, some sort of forces got up there and cut it down as people cheered... really cool. 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/08/south.dakota.protest/index.html?iref=newssearch

Last night we had another amazing meal provided by the church in New Castle and I did some maintenance stuff on the bike

Today I wrecked and landed about a foot away from a dead deer carcass, which would of been really gross to land on, but probably would of broken my fall a little.  Now my whole left butt cheek is one big scrape.