Returned home from vacation safely.

Photo dump coming soon, likely in multiple blog entries, curated from a total of 633 photos taken over two-and-a-half days.

That certainly wouldn't have been possible without the most unexpected find upon first getting to the campground:

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The badlands are named such not for their beauty or danger, but for the fact that they are almost entirely agriculturally useless throughout this continent's recorded history.

When the government was giving out 160-acre squares in the late 1800's to whomever would live and farm the land after paying a small fee, every single one of the plots was bought up.

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