Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Our next stop after our “Wall Drug” adventure in the town of Wall, was Badlands National Park. Badlands encompasses 244,000 acres and protects the largest expanse of prairie in the National Park System. The Oglala Lakota called these lands mako sica, meaning “land bad”. The French trappers and traders followed suit by calling this place…

Me, day before my new diet starts 🤣:

Black-tailed Prairie dog at the Arizona-Senora Desert Museum, one of the many cute and entertaining residents of the park. ❤️ Keep moving on… Nothing going on here… Black-tailed Prairie Dog Nowhere else can you see this sight: black-tailed prairie dogs in an Arizona grassland. Once numerous over their small range in this state, now they’re…