Pictures Day 1 (JUNE 6TH, 2012):
Phoenix, AZ to Salt Lake City, UT:
Packed and ready to go. Back of SUV filled with electronics and personal items, Top of Vehicle full of camping gear, Trailer has the "
Moneylith" on its back (
Viral Moneylith Video) and the "
Money Dome".
Verde Valley, AZ (Camp Verde):
Fort Tuthill Campground, AZ (South of Flagstaff, AZ):
Flagstaff, AZ:
Lots of Native American Roadside Stands set up along the Arizona roads.
Here is one that is set up just south of Page, AZ - in the background,
you can see where the Grand Canyon Begins (wow - what a nice place to
work):
Glen Canyon Dam, AZ (near Lake Powell):
Panguitch, Utah:
Sunset in Utah (just south of Salt Lake City):
PICTURES DAY 2 ( Thursday, JUNE 7TH, 2012):
Salt Lake City, UT to Idaho Falls, ID
Doing the show in the hotel room in Salt Lake City before hitting the road again:
Leaving Salt Lake City, Utah:
Entering Idaho:
Beautiful Idaho scenery:
Ernest in the Idaho Falls O'Reilly's Auto Parts store, getting new
bearings for the trailer we are hauling (rear seal went out, and with it
all the grease - luckily, we caught it just in time, but finding just
the right parts was a little tricky):
Local Sheriff's Dept. officer in Dubois, Idaho helps by holding a flashlight (for almost an hour) as Ernie had to do some hand filing on the axle to fix damage from the failed bearing so the new ones would slide on ("Donna,... I knew I should have brought my Dremel")
PICTURES DAY 3 (Friday, JUNE 8TH, 2012):
Idaho Falls, ID to Kalispell, MT:
Declare Your Independence with Ernest
Hancock - broadcasting LIVE in the parking lot of O'Reilly's Auto Parts
in Idaho Falls, Idaho - literally, 'on the road':
Ernest fixing the trailer bearings between breaks during the show:
O'Reilly's Auto Parts in Idaho Falls, Idaho:
A listener from Idaho Falls (Ron Cecil), hearing that we had
trouble with the trailer bearings and needing to get them fixed before
continuing on the trip, comes by to help out! And Ernest puts him on the
show....
Ron Cecil and Donna Hancock after finishing with the bearings...(THANKS RON) :)
Finally - entering Montana...
Stopped to fill up in a little town about an hour south of Kalispell - note that we took the magnetic Ron Paul sign off the car after Rand's endorsement of Romney. Every stop before was warm and inspiring with thumbs up and positive comments,... after, it was just confusing and sad.
There aren't very many ways into Kalispell, MT - this is approaching Kalispell coming thru the mountains...
Beautiful Kalispell, MT:
Traveling thru the western part of Montana:
More scenery thru western Montana:
PICTURES DAY 4 (Saturday, JUNE 9TH, 2012):
Ernest and Donna Hancock meet up with Gary and Verda Gagnon in Kalispell, MT
PICTURES DAY 5 (Sunday, JUNE 10TH, 2012):
Visiting Chuck Baldwin of Liberty Fellowship (Kalispell, MT):
Liberty Fellowship:
Driving thru the Southwest part of Montana:
More beautiful scenery in Southwestern Montana:
PICTURES DAY 6 (Monday, JUNE 11TH, 2012):
Kalispell, MT to Custer, SD (Left Kalispell, MT Sunday evening - stopped
in Gillette, WY to do the radio show Monday morning before heading to
Custer, SD where we spent the night):
Entering Wyoming in the middle of the night:
Horses in the wilderness of Wyoming at daybreak:
More Wyoming at daybreak:
Wyoming - no chemtrails here...:
Entering South Dakota:
Here is where we stayed in Custer, South Dakota (15 minutes from Crazy Horse) - really beautiful here:
Ernest with a little too much horseradish:
Evening in Custer, SD (stopped to play a little miniature golf):
PICTURES DAY 7 (Tuesday, June 12th, 2012):
Entrance to Crazy Horse:
Model of Crazy Horse (what it will look like when it is finished):
Memorial that will be carved in stone on Crazy Horse Monument:
Ernest and Donna at Crazy Horse:
On the drive from Crazy Horse to Mt. Rushmore (only about a 20 minute drive), there was this beautiful little lake:
Donna at Mount Rushmore. We just pulled into the parking lot to get this picture and then leave. After seeing the privately funded Crazy Horse monument and understanding the story behind the motivation of the Native Americans to create a monument in contrast to the Government funded monument to presidents that ruled over their near extinction,... we didn't feel motivated to spend our money there.
All four heads of Mt. Rushmore together are about the size of the head of the Crazy Horse monument.
This little town, right outside of Mt. Rushmore as you come down from the mountain, makes you feel like you were in the Swiss Alps:
South Dakota Sunset:
PICTURES DAY 8 (Wednesday, June 13, 2012):
Drove all night from Crazy Horse/Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota and arrived in Des Moines Wednesday morning where we did the show from a Starbuck's Parking Lot. Then we drove to Davenport, Iowa where we spent the night.
Arriving in Davenport, Iowa Wednesday evening (Holiday Inn Express on the waterfront):
Ernest does the show from the Holiday Inn Express in Streetsboro, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland) a picture that caught Ernie 'Chair Dancing' to intro music: