What an incredible day. It started with an amazing sunrise right from our campsite. We hadn’t known what our view would be this morning as we parked up in the dark last night. I don’t think it could have been better. We were right on the edge overlooking a lunar landscape.

We drove back into badlands national park to see the bits we missed in the dark last night. The first thing we saw was a massive bison on the side of the road. We gave him a wide berth as he looked pretty scary.

Then 100 ft later were the prairie dogs, popping their heads up calling out to Alan. It was it Steve.

The scenery here is incredible. We’d been here before in 2008 and I remember loving it then.

We headed back to the same spot as we camped the previous night and spent the afternoon sleeping, and marvelling over our fantastic views.

We met a nice girl who came in the camp last night just after us. She is driving across the country from Maryland to go to grad school in Portland. We kept seeing her throughout the day and tonight she bought a friend she’d met. So we hung out with them for a bit, they were good fun.

Tomorrow we go to Custer state park.