The Badlands - Part 2

There are some things that are hard to explain with words such as feelings, the Spirit and often the beauty that the human eye can capture that no camera can. Well, we did our best in the Badlands - we took 99 pictures yesterday and yet I think that it is just something that one needs to experience for themselves. It is beautiful and such a different type of beauty than the Black Hills. We learned at the visitors center that the Badlands were once part of a great ocean that covered most of North America. Slowly as the water receded the sediment from the Black Hills settled into the Badlands and the water then carved it into what it is now. The video at the visitors center said that every year 1 inch of the rock is eroded from the structures/hills so that eventually it will not be there any longer. It reminded me of the Grand Canyon only you could drive through, climb on it and that was many different colors. Again, there were lots of wildlife that were amazing. It is really odd though - you will have one side of the road be prairie with tons of prairie dog mounds and the other side be canyons of rock. We tried to capture it in the pictures - but really it is just something that you need to experience yourself - which I highly recommend.