North Platte to Rapid City, SD (9/13):
It's our last major driving day for a bit. We drove north through the Sand Hills of Nebraska, passing few people and towns but lots of corn, cows and trains. Just outside of the Sand Hills is Carhenge, old cars painted grey and set up as a replica of Stonehenge. We thought that would be the day's highlight (and it was pretty great), but South Dakota trumped it. We were going to skip Wind Cave National Park since we'd just been in a cave in Kentucky a couple days ago, but we decided to drive through and were rewarded with buffalo!!! We saw several grazing by the road only a few feet away and others off in the distance, along with some funny little antelope-things which we later discovered were pronghorns. In Custer State Park, we met the "begging burros" who stick their heads in your car and were just about the best thing ever. They're looking for food, but once they realize you don't have it, they're happy to just hang out and let you pet them and to use your car's side mirrors to scratch their nose.
After lots of driving and hotels, tomorrow we start a camping segment in the Badlands then the Black Hills.
-M
Crossing a time zone going West is like stealing an hour from God. We used our extra hour to have a late McDonalds breakfast.
-B
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