Day 7: The Badlands

Mount Rushmore from Iron Mountain Overlook

Mount Rushmore

We drove over Iron Mountain again, a beautiful drive to Mt. Rushmore, and then left for the Badlands.  Stopped at the famous Wall Drug for lunch and postcards before entering the Badlands. 

Badlands

97 degrees and not at all hospitable...

At the top of these striped hills it's flat and the prairie goes on for miles; then another cut in the earth and more badlands.

Can you find the tee-off green?  Just don't hit your ball in the rough!

Close-up view of the earth - water and wind erodes the sandstone leaving large and small cracks.

We drove I-90 for another 100 miles through corn, sunflower, and sorghum fields to reach Kennebec for the night.  My first time pulling into a campground, or anywhere for that matter, that I was told where to meet in case of severe thunderstorms or even tornados...  At this KOA it's the laundry room - don't think I'll forget that!  If it's a severe threat, and there is time, management has keys to the courthouse a quarter mile away!  Hmmm... wonder how I'll sleep tonight?

Today we added 3 more states New Hampshire, Kansas, and Arkansas.