South Dakota Road Trip - September, 2010 - Part 1

This year we decided to take a road trip to South Dakota via Thackerville, Oklahoma. (Pause to wonder about the sanity of Joel and Kim.)

Saturday morning we dropped off our babies at the vet and set out south on the turnpike.

Sights along the way to Thackerville

Turner Falls

Arbuckle Mountains

Lake Murray State Park

Nice park with ATV trails

Thackerville

No, Joel and Kim are not high rollers.  We went to see Lewis Black and his show was well worth the drive to the Oklahoma-Texas border.

Next morning we set off for South Dakota by way of the scenic byways of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.  (Yes, there are scenic byways in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.)

Sights along the way to South Dakota

View at an Oklahoma rest stop

An old gas station in Plainville, Kansas

Billboard in Broken Bow, Nebraska

South Dakota

Bison in Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

 

Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

 

Prairie Dogs in Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

Bighorn Sheep in Badlands National Park

Bighorn Sheep in Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park

The view on one side of the road...

and the view on the other side of the road.

Time to find a hotel for the night