Sioux Falls, SD to Keystone, SD
A long day indeed.
Today we saw as much of South Dakota as we could (and we will see a little more tomorrow). We started with an early morning walk around Falls Park in Sioux Falls. I suggest everyone who is ever close come to the falls. Bring a picnic as well. Its a great field of grass with a river flowing through it. 80 ft of falls also 🙂
From there we drove on 90 to the town of Mitchel. Here is the Corn Palace. They have been making the Corn Palace since the late 1800’s and every year they make new artwork and decorate the building with corn. Every year is different and today they were building this years model. They had cool pictures inside of every Palace ever made. Yes mostly a tourist trap, but we enjoyed the history of it.
From there we went to the Badlands National Park. We took a long drive through the park and extended our trip into gravel road in search of Bison. Not only is the park beautiful with great rock formations, we found the heard of bison. In fact they were on the road we wanted to drive on. We actually had to turn around. While we sat watching the bison, our crazy puppy had to be restrained from attacking the prairie dogs (of which there where millions running around).
We finished our day at Mount Rushmore. At 9PM there is a “show” with a movie and a speech. Followed by the lights being turned on the mountain. We sang the national anthem and pledged allegiance to the flag. Overall a very USA USA type of a evening.
We now go to bed. A great day, but a long one….
The Wiggen's Travels 
Holy smokes, Batman! Can you say fun-filled American summer?!
Really enjoying taking the trip around the US with you this way…. a lot of places you’ve been have really surprised me in a good way! You’re changing my opinion of the rest of America, one blog entry at a time 😉
P.S. Can we have another map update now?
Fred - July 21, 2009 at 10:41 pm |
Do the Badlands prarie dogs still have the plague? (When we where there last summer there were warning signs all over about it.)
Kathie - July 21, 2009 at 11:13 pm |
No signs about the plague, however they did say that our dog could get sick if he got too close to the prairie dogs.
kwiggen - July 22, 2009 at 4:13 am |