We started off our first real day of vacation by traveling to the Badlands. We did, however, decide to stop at the Minute Man Missile Historic site where we missed the guided tour by a few minutes. Later though, we did stop to see one of the missile sites and could look down through the blast doors to see the missile itself. Anyway, the distractions for getting to the badlands continued as we stopped to feed the prairie dogs and buy Lincoln a set of Longhorns. He wants to put them on front of the RV, but as luck would have it, there is no where to install them.
The Badlands are quite incredible if you just stand back and look at them. They certainly live up to their name and really couldn't be good for anything except looking. At the first overlook, Lincoln and Landon went off-trailing and we all ended up following along. The ground is so loose and soft that you can hardly walk at all. Some places would be dangerous to try to go through as there on no rocks or handholds and what looks solid generally isn't. Anyway we certainly enjoyed the drive and the frequent stops that we made. Our last bit of fun in the Badlands was capped off by seeing the fastest four footed animal in North America. They were only 100 yards off the road.
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