Badlands

It's hard to think of the North Dakota badlands as "bad" right now; there has been so much rain here that everything is green. The wildlife is having a heyday, I'm sure.

North Dakota isn't exactly a tourist destination for most people, but here I am, on the Great Family Vacation Adventure. So far we've mostly spent our time running around Medora and trying to keep our things dry. Yesterday, my brother and I took a hike out into the national park, which proved to be fairly interesting. We took a trail that turned out to be a game trail rather than a human trail, then went back to the real trail and found a dead bison lying smack in the middle of the trail, walked through a creek bed to avoid it, took another trail that ended up being mostly made for guided horse rides, were chased by curious wild horses, somehow managed to avoid running into a herd of bison, and emerged from a rock face onto the park road with very little idea of how to describe to our panicking father where he should pick us up.

Good times...who knows what may be in store for today?