No Quarter

The line of cars just to get to the parking lot of Mt. Rushmore was half a mile long. We had places to go and things to do so we skipped it.

What's really cool is that there's a turnout on the main road where you can see just George Washington's profile. At first I thought it was a giant quarter stuck on the side of the mountain.

Now I have a little bit of a beef with Alfred Hitchcock's classic movie North By Northwest (1959). In the final scene where Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint are climbing down the presidents' faces, they start from a forested plateau. In real life the back side of Mt. Rushmore is another rock face. They must have filmed on a Hollywood sound stage. Who knew?