Without a doubt my favorite natural feature of the trip, the Badlands surprised me with their diversity ranging from barren, forbidding canyons to green fields with brightly colored soft stone hills. We also made a stop at the Air and Space Museum, which was a terrific place we could have spent much more time at. Overall we made three trips to the Badlands, and I hope to make many more.

Ethan and a B1B Lancer	Greetings Professor Falken	One happy kid	"I really need these"
Ethan’s favorite	Guns on the B-26K	Boys overlooking badlands	Surprisingly green
One terrified mother	Step carefully	Pay attention	Cool rock
Mammatus over the Badlands	It’s a fact. Boys love danger.	Mammatus over the Badlands	Devin with cactus
Mammatus forming over the Badlands	Mammatus forming over the Badlands	Mammatus forming over the Badlands	Obligatory dead tree photo
Strom is coming	Thunderheads on the horizon	Thunderhead forming	Mini-plateaux
Sunset	Prairie dog	Pink and yellow strata	Pink and yellow strata
Pink and yellow strata	Pink and yellow strata	Pink and yellow strata	Devin in front of strata
The quintessential Üners	Sci-Fi landscape	Badlands canyon	What lives here?
Cactus	Devin coaxes Linda onto a ledge	Devin on the edge	Devin on the edge
Um, no.	Pronghorns	Prairie dog	Prairie dog town

I don't have enough good photos to post or the time to do entries on some of the other places we went and really enjoyed, like Jewel Cave or the School of Mines Museum of Geology Mission, but it suffices to say we had a wonderful time, and we thank everyone in the great state of South Dakota for taking care of us and for educating us.

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