After catching up on lost sleep, everyone was out by 7pm, we were ready to hit the road and head to the Badlands. We pulled out of Mitchell, South Dakota at 8:30 am (after grabbing reshoots of the Corn Palace-see below)
The skies to the west were dark and as we hit I-90 it was starting to rain. The weather remained threatening until we crossed the Missouri River. There wasn't a cloud in the sky as we entered the Badlands. And the heat was starting to crank up.
No one was disappointed in what we saw. As a matter of fact, if it wasn't for the heat, we would have spent the entire day exploring every peak and gully. We were all so impressed, that we changed our plans for our return and are skipping the Oregon Trail for a second trip back into the park. (The $15 pass is good for 7 days...such a small price for so much beauty).
As the architect Frank Lloyd Wright wrote, "I've been about the world a lot, and pretty much over our own country, but I was totally unprepared for that revelation called the Dakota Bad Lands...what I saw gave me an indescribable sense of mysterious elsewhere-a distant architecture, ethereal.., and endless supernatural world more spiritual than earth but created out of it."
I can truly understand why an architect would be so inspired by the beauty of colors and the sculpture of the land. As Jacob said, "This is tight."
Links to all the pictures are to the left.
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