Just a couple of juice smugglers

Written By Matt Brown

Sioux Falls, SD > Interior, SD (Badlands National Park) 

  • Enjoyed our complimentary breakfast buffet at the Sheraton (first time we’ve eaten “out” all trip) 

  • We took a bunch of extra juices, yogurts and a box of tissue for our journey - we’re becoming vultures 

  • Arrived to the Badlands National Park

  • Very rainy and windy, so we set up camp and made a healthy snack for the upcoming road trip - protein / energy bits 

  • Explored the park:

    • Perused the visitor center: learned about the rock formations developing over the last 75 million years, the expected animals that roamed here and the more recent history aid the Lakota Indians 

    • Strolled one of the boardwalk trails and saw a few mule deer 

    • Short hike at Notch Trail; cable ladder 

    • Badlands Loop Road

    • Stopped to feed peanuts to prairie dogs (Oslo was very curious and excited to meet his new furry friends) 

    • Wall Drug (old western style storefront) 

    • Caught several bison grazing on the prairie (plus hundreds of prairie dogs) 

Matt Brown
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