The Badlands of South Dakota and Sioux Falls

Here I am - finally updating this blog on November 13th.  I ran out of space for pictures and couldn't decide if I wanted to purchase more space.  Anyway, I just did it finally so here is the next blog.



It is now Thursday, Oct. 14th and we are leaving Custer for Sioux Falls, via WALL DRUG (of course) and The Badlands.

If you've never been to Wall Drug, it is a quaint little town with numerous (tooo many) shops, but they do offer 5 cent coffee and some great cake donuts with frosting on top!!

It wasn't very busy at all this time of year so we got in and got out in less than two hours.

We then took the road south out of Wall Drug to The Badlands.  It is a Federal Park so we got in for FREE.

This is another amazing part of the great USA.  There is nothing like it elsewhere.

The drive takes about an hour, but, with stops along the way, it took us a couple of hours.  At one point we stopped at a turnout to walk on the boardwalk that they have set up to get a close up of the land and see some prehistoric skeletons, etc.

Anyway, about half way around the walk, we noticed that a tour bus pulled up in front of our truck and trailer.  A bunch of people got out and started their walk.  We got back to the parking area and then walked accross the road to see more of the badlands.   When we came back, ALL of the people from the tour bus were taking pictures of our truck, the trailer, the hitch, everything!!  We started to get into the truck and the tour guide said that these people were all from Germany and were on a tour.  You would have thought that we were part of the tour!!  I told her that this was our home and that we had been on the road for 2 years.  She relayed that to the group and they were all 'ooong' and 'aahing.' 
I think we could have opened up the slides and given our own tour!!!  (That was our 15 minutes of fame!).
From there we continued our drive and took MORE pictures.

After we left the Badlands, we headed east toward Sioux Falls.  About half way we spent the night in Presho, SD and then continued the next day.
We got to Sioux Falls on Friday and spent the weekend with my sister, Judeen, and her husband, Jim.  Jim was in the hospital at the time so we saw him there. (Since then he has gone home and is recuperating nicely).  Their daughter, Katie, came up from Sioux City on Saturday so we went out to dinner with them.  On Sunday we visited Jim again, watched some Viking football, and then said our goodbyes.