The Arch

Here's the Arch as we drove by. We dead headed back home when we left the Badlands. We were ready to come home. We left on August 24th and came home on Sept. 24th. The Arch will have to be another trip.

Crazy Horse

This is what the monument will look like when it is finished.
The next pictures show where it is now. We don't think it will be finished in our lifetime.

Badlands 3

The land becomes level and there are canyons.
This is a Minuteman Missle site designated as a National Historic site.
Looking down into the silo.

These formations are called yellow mounds. They are the third type of formations.


This is the final formations. They went from this to canyons.

More Badlands

This area had different looking formations. There were lines through the formations.

Badlands National Park

This is what Badlands looked like at the beginning. It reminded me of the formations the kids made at the beach when they had wet sand and let it fall from their hands.

Wind Cave National Park SD

This was the original entrance to the cave. Wind Cave is a boxwork cave and has no stalagmites or stalagtites. There are very few boxwork caves in the world. There are over 100 miles that have been charted and they are still looking for more.











The wind coming out of the cave is quite strong. The sound was how it was first discovered. Alvin McDonald began exploring the cave in 1890. He had a candle and a ball of string. He kept a detailed journal of his explorations.

















This is the boxwork formation. The cave is 57 degrees and has no bats due to the low temperature.
I think I am going to call this the year of the caves. We went to two caves in TN and this one in SD.