Hey folks, Today we got out of Mitchell and embarked on our 350 miles (Yippie, no 500 mile drive today!) towards Western South Dakota. Not too far into it we crossed Lake Francis Case (on the map it looks more like a river but appears to be a series of lakes according to the names) and the landscape changed abruptly. We went from praires and grass lands to some pretty serious hills. After an hour or so of that we started to see some of the rock formations that make up the Badlands National Park. To tour the Badlands we took the approximately 30 mile Loop Road through the park. At the beginning of the loop, just before the park, we stopped at the Prarie Dog Ranch Gift Shop and fed some peanuts to some seriously overweight praire dogs. The kind young lady at the store was also gracious enough to let us use an electrical outlet to charge our camera battery. The Road Warrior left the power ON after charging the battery the night before. So there we were, minutes from the entrance to our first National Park and we had no camera battery. I couldn't let you guys down like that so Eve suggested we bum a little electricty from them. Great idea! Twenty minutes later the camera had enough juice to not only get us through the Badlands but Mt. Rushmore as well. The Badlands is an amazing landscape and home to buffalo, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, praire dogs and many more. We did not seen any buffalo but did witness a pronghorn antelope in the distance with it's baby antelope running around. Pretty cool. We got out of the car and did a little hiking through the eerie landscape and also stopped at some pull offs for some amazing vistas. Click the pic to enlarge!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
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