Tag: Badlands
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Backroads Across America: Wall-to-Wall Wildlife
From prairie dogs to a rattlesnake, the wildlife was out today during our roadside stops in Badlands National Park as we drove toward the Black Hills in South Dakota. Then, a brief visit to Wall Drugs brought Sue up close to another kind of wild guy. The town of Wall, South Dakota, on I-90,…
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Backroads Across America: Yeah, South Dakota!
To be honest, Tuesday’s drive, 320 miles across the fairly flat farmlands of northern Iowa, was uneventful. We were not tempted to pull off and explore. The two Misses rivers on either side of Iowa were beautiful, though. As we left North Sioux City in southeastern South Dakota this morning, the landscape quickly became…