In the Badlands!

 We arrived at the Badlands National Park and spent the night at Cedar Pass Lodge at the tiny town of Interior, South Dakota, population 65.  The scenery here is both desolate and hauntingly beautiful.  It moves quickly from high plains to deep rock formations that show up out of nowhere.

At one of our stops we met a large group of young Amish families from Wisconsin.  They had rented a bus and a driver to take them on vacation.  As long as someone else did the driving, it was okay to travel. Almost every one of them came with binoculars.  

The only wildlife here was prairie dogs.  It seems too desolate to sustain much that is living.  We did, however, see lots of rabbits around our Cedar Pass cabin…must not be many predators for them!