Badlands, South Dakota

We journeyed on to Wall, South Dakota.  What a day!  It started out by us trying to leave the RV park in Rapid City.  I was moving the truck to hook up to the back of our motor home.  Dead Battery!  Jim got out the charger, got it started, and off we went to Walmart.  About 2 hours later we finally were able to leave.

As Jim drove the motor home around the park in order to exit, he had to stop before he took out a pole.  Well, that required us to unhook the pickup so that he could back up the motor home to avoid the pole. That was about another half hour.

About an hour later, we finally arrived at Arrow RV Park in Wall, South Dakota.   Now, we were on the way to park our motor home. Jim skeptically followed the instructions of the park manager and got the motor home stuck again.  We had to unhook the truck again so that he could back up the motor home  to get around another obstacle.  Twice in one day we had to unhook the truck in order to navigate these older rv parks.

After lunch we decided to go to Badlands National Park. The peaks, gullies, buttes, and the prairies were amazing!  

  Pronghorn antelope were just walking right up to us as they grazed along the hills.

More pronghorn antelope resting.

There was a section called Prairie Dog Town.

And more scenery...

We also were able to see a herd of buffalo in the distance.  In speaking with the park ranger, we found out that the bison herd has about 1500 in the park and we probably saw about 1000.