The past week has been a blur of driving, day hikes, high winds and grasslands. We left Michigan on October 26th and spent the next several days traveling. From Marquette, Michigan to Minneapolis, Minnesota to South Dakota, the realm of Wall Drugs and the Badlands.
After miles and miles of grasslands, the ground suddenly opens to the Badland’s jaggedly eroded chasms. Bright sunny days and cold nights. We arrived in high winds, blowing up to 70 miles per hour. It took a consistent effort to stay standing when walking around. Not that the landscape seemed to care. The wind moved little, with the exception of swaying grass and the random tumbleweed.
From Badlands to Devil’s Tower, to rainy days in Yellowstone. The roads in Yellowstone National Park closed for the winter yesterday morning, pushing us onward to the Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole – beautiful to Yellowstone’s bizarre. Ah yeah… Yellowstone is bizarre. Stories to come.
