September 23: During the afternoon, Mariel took us to the North Dakota Badlands by car. We got to cross the Missouri River, which was awesome because I had bee sad I wasn't going to get the chance. The Badlands are amazing, a weathered beauty that is grooved into the memory. The overcast skies only add to the gray, brown and ruddy pigments creating a stark timelessness sense of earth. Going to the Badlands we give up getting to see buffalo, which is in the other direction, but an unexpected bonus lay in wait. as we came over the rise there on the yellow plains ahead was a herd of free roaming bison.

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