We Conata Do This—Yes We Can

I’ve now made it to describing our third day of exploring the Badlands. This time we really went out there, and this day is among our most fun days on the entire trip.

We went back to the Conata Basin.

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Up the Creek without a Saddle

We’re now up to day 2 (June 13) of our trip to the Badlands of South Dakota. On our first day we’d hiked the only real trail of the park, and we’d driven to the other side and seen a bunch of wildlife.

Now it was time to start branching out.

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A Field of Yellow

We’re continuing our trip to the Badlands. The hike my son and I took along the Castle Trail only took up the morning, so in the afternoon (June 12) we went for a drive looking for wildlife.

It was there in a field of yellow.

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Back in the Saddle Again

You folks may have noticed a dearth of posts for the past few weeks (aside from a few I set up in advance). The reason is that I was gone on another trip out west with my son. It’s now time for me to write about it.

We starting out in the Badlands of South Dakota.

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