Road Trip Spring 2018 - 3 - Around Rapid City, SD
As with the last batch, these are kinda fuzzy, after being reduced to a size that uploads at a reasonable speed. The originals are much better... but would take forever... If Anyone wants one, just holler.
Expecting nothing, I asked the young Ranger on the information desk if there was any information available about the Visitors' Center itself, and more particularly, about previous Visitors' Centers that probably had since been replaced.
She produced a map and proceeded to give me a detailed history of the two Visitors' Centers that had existed before the current one. She was enchanted to learn that my Uncle Cliff Sorenson had been the Site Supervisor for the construction of the preceding Center, opened in 1964, and demolished (sniff 
) in 1991 to be replaced by the one that is there now.
Once again, the pure competence of the US Park Service amazes me!
A fixture of the Park for decades.
We were not alone at our hotel
The Badlands...
At the edge of the Badlands, there are several big Prairie Dog towns
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I'm not very good at landscapes. The Badlands are far more impressive than I manage to transmit here. Spectacular colors.
It's been a number of years since I visited the Badlands, but they are very impressive and the colors are spectacular.
Good photo essay Bob...
Kinda liked the prairie dogs...
It's fun to just stand a while and watch the busy little buggers...