Reunion Tour - 21

Departed Rapid City after three days to head eastward. Took a scenic road to The Badlands National Park, which is all in S Dakota. The Badlands in N Dakota are called Theodore Roosevelt National Park and they each have their own beauty. We drove a portion of the loop road through the park and took the photos shown. Dorothy liked the one showing grassland on top of the Badlands. Then headed east on the interstate and just had to stop at Wall Drug in Wall SD. It's about one block square and has all kinds of tourist stuff in it, but it was interesting. Then more interstate travel for a couple of hundred miles to spend the night in Mitchell SD, home of the Corn Palace. More on that tomorrow. Driving through S Dakota we saw the end of the wheat harvesting process, fields of sunflowers, many herds of cattle, and miles and miles of flat land. One thing we noticed in Rapid City is that casinos don't seem to be limited to Indian reservations. They were scattered all over town in buildings the size of convenience stores and they didn't seem to have a lot of activity. They didn't get any action out of us.