Our Wild West Expedition, Oct 5-10
We swapped star- for animal-spotting and drove through seven states in five days, traveling across the prairies for hours and seeing nobody - just bison, prairie dogs, coyote, raccoons, eagles, deer and horses. With four consecutive days in the 80s, it certainly was an Indian summer in the Indian territories!
Galena, Illinois on the Mississippi River.
The Badlands of South Dakota.
Extending as far as the eye could see.
I spotted three people I knew in the distance.
Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln.
Mount Rushmore up close.
'Begging burros' came looking for handouts near Custer.
Herds of bison.
Devil's Tower, Wyoming (featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
The tower at sunset.
We made it to Sundance in time for the Cubs vs Marlins playoff.
The gold-rush town of Deadwood, South Dakota, made infamous by
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane.....and the HBO TV series.
The world's largest bison!
A typical Pioneer church.
The university quarter of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Capitol at Madison, Wisconsin.
