Enchanted Highway

Regent,  North Dakota

http://www.enchantedhighway.net/

Terri, who is an avid collector of visitor welcome center brochures, found out about this collection of HUGE metal sculptures along the highway to Regent ND.  We took a detour to see them and here are the photos to prove it.  Please visit the link above for more information on how these sculptures were built.

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Pheasants on the prairie

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Theodore Roosevelt,  26th President of the United States 1901 - 1909

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Each of these combines goes about $300,000 plus another $25,000 for each from end.  1.3 million on the hoof.  Plus the price of the tractor.  For a look at how the combines are built see http://neme-s.org/John_Deere/John_Deere_1.htm 

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The Tin Family

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Deer crossing

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Grasshoppers Delight

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Fish.  Notice that one of the fish still hangs from a boom truck.  We were told that funding had run out and there it hangs.

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