After some much needed R&R we headed off across Wyoming and into South Dakota.
Just a few miles of I-90 in the western end of the state was the famed Mount Rushmore. We moseyed on up there only to find a $10 fee to see what we could already see from the parking lot, so I snapped a picture and moved along.
Sheep
Heading east, we were back in prairie land. The people of South Dakota need to attract tourists somehow, and since its pretty boring they really have to go out of their way. Case and Point: Wall Drug Store. We started seeing signs half way through Wyoming. They really laid it on thick, posting more billboards than we could shake a stick at. Here's a bunch we saw within just a couple miles:
It litterally went on like this for a hundred miles. They were really trying hard to get us to come, especially with the free coffee and donuts for honymooner's ad. So we went for it, just to check out the scene.
At first we weren't really into it. Looked like just another big store from the outside
But then we found a real dinosaur!
And a talking bison.
And some jackalopes.
And a jackalope possibly larger than "The World's Largest Jackalope" which we just saw yesterday.
And an Actual-Size replica of Mount Rushmore. Why did we do a cross country road trip when all we had to do was stop in Wall Drug, SD?
Nate was so excited that I couldn't get him to leave.
Eventually I managed to get Nate back to the car and we continued our trek eastward through South Dakota.
Next stop was The Badlands. A pretty cool national park. The rock formations were very similar to that of Monument Rock in Kansas. These went on for miles and miles, however. It was pretty cool to see, but at this point we have been totally National-Park'ed out, so we just drove through pretty quick.
Saw some wildlife, too.
All in all, South Dakota was pretty fun. Not quite as epic as Kansas, but I think I'll stop referring to it as "The Second Best Dakoka in America"
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