Well, we're not camping tonight...that didn't work out so much due to the threat of inclement weather. We're just outside of Rapid City, SD. We've spent a thrilling day driving, but it was brightened by visits to the Badlands, and to Wall Drug, in Wall, SD. The Badlands are crazy, because they look like a bunch of crazy rock formations rising suddenly out of the grasslands.
The title of this post comes from the sign we saw, which said that Wall is "THE WINDOW TO THE West." I'm not sure how to describe the store, or complex, called Wall Drug. It contains the craziest array of stupid souvenirs we'd ever seen. My favorites were the "buffalo chipper" (a frisbee made to look like a buffalo turd), and "Bibleopoly" (a Bible-based version of Monopoly. I got a mint-chocolate shake at the soda fountain, and we all laughed at the anamatronic cowboy orchestra, the six-foot jack rabbit statue, and the fifty foot dinosaur. This is a world famous and highly entertaining old drug store that began more than fifty years ago as a relished source of five-cent coffee and free ice water for old-time travelers. The ice water is still free. Signs for the store can be seen world-wide, from the New York City subway to Africa. We recommend it for a great laugh. Tomorrow we're staying in Cody, so that we can try to get up early the next day to grab a camp site in Yellowstone before they fill up (usually by 10:00 am)...or at least that's the plan. Good night from all of us in the prairie.
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