Caves, desert, and lots of miles.

We started our day off on 5-28 visiting Jewel Cave National Monument. This is another nice cave system (160 miles long and still being mapped) that was set aside by Teddy Roosevelt. Worth a trip to see and like the other National Park caves sytems it is not backlit by tacky colored floodlights like you see in commercial caves. 

 

We then moved on to the Minuteman Missle National Historic Site. How often do you get to peer into and examine a ICBM and its siloh?  Unfortunately the command center tours do not start until June 16 so we could not go underground. Still very neet to see. 

The Minuteman site borders the Badlands which was our next visit and man did it live up to its name. We stopped at Badlands National Park, but I am not posting any photos, if you want to see it take the trip. 

We stopped for the night in Salem, SD at what had to be the cleanest, and lushest RV park we have ever seen. After a week and a half in desert and semi arid environmenta it was a welcome change to have soft green grass and shade from elm trees.