Day .....13

Wow..... What can I say..... heading home for real now... Hitting the Badlands, then Wall Drugs....

We go to a road that leads to the Badlands.... it's dirt,  it's been raining on this road, there is gravel, and it's majorly bumpy.. We decide to go to Route 240....

 We keep on going on Route 44 till we get to 240, we find that it is a national park, and to take the loop that is Route 240 we need to pay $10. each.... ok... we enter the park and follow the signs that say Wall.... we come upon this.....

Nice, but this is just the beginning......

Then we come to a part in the Badlands that we are over looking them instead of looking up at them....

it almost looks like a mini grand canyon....  it looks like rock, but, check it out up close....

up close it looks like dried mud....

Different shapes, different colors........

G-d's Tie Dyed land.....

yellows and pinks......

We leave this wonderful sight, and go to Wall Drug's we started seeing signs for Wall in Wyoming!  Chuck gave us 4 nickels to buy 4 cups of coffee. we pull into Wall, and it seems like the whole town is built after Wall Drugs

We have lunch at Wall, then go to Wall HD, then head East on the 90... We spent more time than we thought we would in the Badlands so we know we are not going to make it to Souix Falls.... So we head out on the 90 by Wall with a full tank of gas... We head right into some crazy cross winds... I feel like I don't have a windshield on, and I'm driving side ways and my left arm is starting to hurt from fighting with the winds.... we go about 120 miles and pull into a rest stop.... we are all being beat up.... we decide to get gas in about 40 miles... we pull of then and decide to call it a day... we find out from the Weather Channel that the winds are just going to be 5 to 10 MPH tomorrow......... ahhhhh that is more like it. 

Tomorrow we will cross the swollen Missouri  river.

This is a sad day....we are on our way home now, and we are parting from Lou.... he needs to be home Friday, he is going to be doing some crazy long riding.... Our prayers go with you Lou. 

Lou was a great riding partner... we had a lot of laughs, and a lot of great times with Lou this trip... We did get into a rhythm, the 3 of us...  We relaxed, we had fun, we saw some awesome things....

but, our journeys will continue tomorrow... but, not together, we know will have different stories... going different directions.... Till we all ride together again.... hopefully OctVRfest....

G-dspeed Lou...

hummmm what's the plan.... route 66, and the Grand Canyon???? Cool!