Home At Last

Many miles
Gypsy traveler
Home at last

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I have returned from a ten-day bus trip with my mom and 43 senior citizens. Originating from South Louisiana, we traveled 3600 miles through eleven states with several designated stops:

• Guided tour of Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis … the church was built in 1907; this Cathedral, known for its beautiful interior mosaics, took nearly 80 years to create using more than 41 million pieces of tile … an incredible work of art and marble.

• Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri

• Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD … folk art icon using over 3000 bushels of grasses and 275+ thousands ears of colored corn (5 colors) created in murals to adorn the inside and outside of the building … Yearly themes depicted. The workers start in June and complete by October.

• Badlands National Park … rugged and spectacular geologic landscape

• Mount Rushmore

• Custer State Park

• Crazy Horse Memorial – privately funded memorial, in progress

• Great Platte River Road Archway Monument in Kearney, Nebraska … where many trails towards the West Expansion intersected … Mormon Trail, Oregon Trail, California Trail and 49ers Trail

• Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum

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Written in 3-5-3 format

© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2012

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