Today we drove to the far western side of North Dakota. On the way we detoured to see the "enchanted highway".

Basically, it was a man who made on huge iron statue and people started coming to see it, so he made another and then another and it grew into a 30 mile stretch of highway with a bunch of super huge metal statues along the way. They were really huge too. I should have taken a picture with me standing beside one so you could tell the scale of these things. Lets just say most were at least 3 to 4 stories high. Notice how flat the land is around them. When we got through we drove about 30 miles further down the road and rounded a bend and all the sudden there were these mounds of rock/dirt or whatever the badlands are made of.

It is quite amazing, it looks like God had a bunch of clay on his hands and wanted it off so he just slung his hands and the clay landed and hardened. We drove part of the loop today and saw wild horses and prairie dog villages. Quite amazing though that these beautiful mounds just pop up in the middle of this otherwise very flat land and they seem to go as far as the eye can see when you get on the top of one and look across.

I read that Theodore Roosevelt lost both his mom and wife on the same day and that he came to this area to heal. Later he became president and named this area as a national park.