We are so happy to have our wifi back, and that everyone is feeling better.
Our drive through the prairie is gorgeous, just open sky and South Dakota is breathtaking. The only thing remotely marring the mostly empty and natural landscape are huge billboards advertising something called "Wall Drug" the world's largest drug store, according to their advertisement. There is a new ad for them every couple hundred yards, even hundreds of miles away from there.
The badlands are DIFFERENT. You park your car and in one direction is completely flat plains, and grasses, and on the other are infinite hundreds-of-foot tall piles of mud, as far as the eye can see. Miles and miles of piles of mud.
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| grass on one side, badlands on the other. |
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| the four sisters went on a hiking walk by ourselves |
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| a tiny pile of mud |
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| we tired agnes out! |
We can see how settlers and western frontiers people must have stared to have their horses arrive here, and why they would call it the Badlands. I'm surprised there's not a whole huge settlement on the Eastern edge of the Badlands for the quitters.
We couldn't help going to Wall Drug. We got out of the Badlands park, and they said there was water and "5cent coffee" and everything else in the world we could possibly want. It's pretty big, and there was everything they advertised.
Then we wrote the Wall Drug limerick.
WALLDRUG
We stopped on the road at WALL DRUG
Where coffee was 5 cents a mug.
Some pipes made of brass
6 gallons of gas
And knick knacks too heavy to lug.
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