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How much fun you can have on the drive from Pierre to Wall! I drove the "Bad River Road" out of Pierre and saw some really beautiful hills. The Bad River Road is a good digression. It is well graveled and clearly marked. There are a few alternative routes you can take away from it and after driving through barren hills for what seems like forever you will pass into gigantic fields of Sunflowers and after a few miles be right back into the wide-open hills.
Wall, South Dakota has roadside signs forever leading up to it. The Wall Drug store is the main culprit. Apparently they have been up to this for many-a-year and turned the town into a sucessful tourist trap.
But Wall is the best place to stay before a drive into the South Dakota Badlands. Yes, I went into Wall Drug and had an unimpressive piece of pie--some things ya just gotta do. There is a life size Brontosaurus out by the interstate. if you are going into the Badlands, you will pass right by it! |
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Technology moves ever on, this old tire has little in common with the cutting edge except that in it's day it was the latest and greatest thing.
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When you live way out in the middle of nowhere you have to find something to do on a Saturday night. Way out in what used to be the town of Wendt some fellows decided to play around with an old car frame... |
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Way out on the Bad River road you might stumble upon the ex-town of Wendt. There is little more left of this town beyond a few tumbled-down houses and some wrecked cars. |
I guess they haven't had much luck finding renters for this humble little house. At least it has a private outhouse. That must have been a long walk on cold-winter days. |
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I think this wooden spoked wheel makes a nice yard ornament for this house |
Barely more than a pair of tracks through the emptiness. This side road wound through fields and over hills for about five miles until it petered out. Ah well, time to turn around and head back. Once I... |
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There is/was a town named Capa, South Dakota. There is a church there, a schoolhouse and a few abandoned houses. This is one of the abandoned houses. |
This house needs some work but there's nobody home to do it. |
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There are few parishoners to be found here now, the preacher left long ago. Still, someone cares enough th burn out the seeds that grow along the walk of this abandoned church in Douth Dakota |
Out behind the old school house in Capa, South Dakota there are these two outhouses. It's hard to tell which is for boys and which is for girls but I don't think they get much use anymore. |
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It was a large family that once lived in this giant old house. The foundation is cracked, the roof probably leaks and it looks like it is a little drafty in the winter. But think of all the fresh air you... |
Quinn, South Dakota is yet another of those old towns that is struggling to survive. How do you convince people to movre to a place so far out in the middle of nowhere? I think the sign for the town said... |
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