Rain!!!!!

Another day of torrential rain, unusual in this area at this time of year, but true! So what to do! Well, after breakfast, we ran for the car and headed for the Badlands, driving through a maelstrom. An interesting start to the drive as an I90 access road was closed and the GPS obligingly threw up the message "Unable to calculate route"! But we managed!! Arriving at Badlands National Park we saw very little as it was misty, but things cleared and we took in the the incredible landscape, once again. Apparently, the rain brings out the colours in the rock strata. Yeah right! Frankly, I preferred it when we saw it in the hot sun! (I may be inclined to borrow from photographs taken during a previous trip.)

Having completed the drive-loop, we set off for Wall Drug, a nearby tourist trap, dating from an age when a local druggist gave glasses of water to passing travellers. Now, its advertised on classic billboards along the I90 and sells every kind of tourist junk imaginable! A quick hot dog and coffee and we headed back to base, to investigate Rapid City's downtown ...... and discover that England had won their opening game of the World Cup.

As for a musical memory .... "Black Slacks", by Joe Stapleton and the Sparkletones!