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We
continued on the Loop coming to a couple cowhands blocking the
road. Then we heard gun shots on the hill followed by the sight of
dozens of horses hurriedly heading into their corral. "Ya! Yip!" cried the
ranchers...
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Major Sites Visited:
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Great River Bluffs SP, Winona, MN
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Jolly Green Giant, Blue Earth, MN
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Corn Palace, Mitchell, SD
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Badlands National Park, Interior, SD
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Wall
Drug, Wall, SD
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Legion Lake, Custer SP, SD
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Needles Highway, Custer, SD
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The big Sinclair dinosaur in Lake Delton, WI, is the first of many large fiberglass animals along I-90.
Welcome to Sparta, WI, the self-proclaimed bicylcle capital of America. (I have my doubts.)
A stormy afternoon swept into the Mississippi bluffs and hills around LaCrosse.
Lock & Dam #7 near Dakota, MN, on the Mississippi.
People need to stop removing the "c's" from every one of these in the U.S.A.
The one and only Corn Palace in the last Midwestern town on our route: Mitchell, SD.
This year's Corn Palace theme was "sporting events" in honor of the summer Olympics.
The mighty Jolly Green Giant overseeing his dominions in the cereal country of Blue Earth, MN.
We arrived at Cedar Pass in Badlands NP, SD, just in time tpo grab a shaded campsite.
The spires above Cedar Pass.
Stopping for a rest on a hill overlooking the Cliff Shelf Trail.
The expanse of prairies and badlands stretch as far as the eye can see.
Always watch your step in the American West.
Andrew took quickly to hiking the hills above the Badlands.
A Badlands NP sunset scene.
Sometimes the trail goes unmarked.
Andrew found some fossils along the trail.
A prairie dog enjoying the morning sun in one of the huge dog cities in the Badlands.
The colorful, eroded hills near Conata, SD.
He's strong and ready to go.
The White River valley in the Badlands.
Andrew admiring the dried riverbed of the White River.
Mother and child (and child) on the crumbling badlands.
Wall Drug has outgrown it's tiny humble beginnings as a local drug store.
Confused grandmas on a bus tour wondering where they are supposed to be and what the itenirary has in store for them.
That mother looks like a dude! At Wall Drug.
Before leaving Wall, we grabbed some food for the road.
A pronghorn spotted in Custer SP, SD.
Turkeys plowing through the prairie grasses in Custer near the Hunting Lodge.
A front moved in fast over the Custer prairies.
A Custer bison cow looking for shelter from the coming storm.
The bison at Custer, like this cow and calf, seems nerve wracked by the changing weather.
A priarie dog from the southern part of Custer SP, near Wind Cave.
The front moved over Legion Lake, giving a lightning show while we ate dinner.
Our campsite in Custer SP was not easy to come by.
Cooking breakfast now that the bison had cleared out.
The beautiful cliff face of Legion Lake.
Jessica and Andrew paddled around the lake while Scott took a hike around the hills.
Andrew is relaxing on the paddleboat.
From the water on Legion Lake.
Legion Lake is surrounded by little duck bands.
A Legion Lake turtle.
A mallard preening in the shallows of Legion Lake.
Looking across Legion Lake from the lodge.
The Legion Lake Lodge, as seen from the rock face across the lake.
Non-descript Custer SP fish.
The pine and junipers around the lake made for some sweet smells.
The road rides high in the northern part of Custer SP.
Eye of the Needle in the Needles section of Custer SP.