You know we stopped here.

It is pretty amazing....

Why is Teddy Roosevelt included with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln?  A clue may be that the head of the project knew Roosevelt personally....

Wildlife is prolific here. This guy was one of several wandering the site. As we walked around our campground a group of six deer walked through.

I rushed yesterday's blog, so here's a few additional notes. The Journey Museum in Rapid city had a great section on fossils and dinosaurs. We were impressed by the knowledge and scope shown--for example these fossil dinosaur eggs with one broken open on the right, showing the bones of the almost-hatchling. The exhibit showed how they used "CATscans" to get clear pictures of each bone or fragment.

Then we wondered if we shouldn't be so easily impressed. The picture below is genuinely unretouched from our drive here from the Badlands. Glad were not sleeping in a tent.