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I think Caroline’s iPad note sums today up perfectly: “Hello, Caroline here. All of the geysers and hot springs were pretty cool, but most of them smelled like death… I recommend looking at pictures. All the coolness but none of the stink.” Yesterday I described never wanting to smell sulfur ever again. Today, the smells…

As I’m writing this, I am in a very pretty and very eco-friendly Yellowstone hotel room that has soap bars shaped like teddy bears and a lobby that looks like it came straight out of a ski lodge advertisement. Caroline got thoroughly overenthusiastic about the Keurig that came with the room, but I’m mostly miffed…

To quote the rodeo announcer: we weren’t born in Cody, Wyoming, but we got here as fast as we could. We spent most of the day driving straight across Wyoming and up through switchbacks on Big Horn Mountain, which offered spectacular views of the surrounding valley (and some definite lack of oxygen). Our first stop…

The first thing I noticed about the Badlands was the smell of the accumulated sediment of millennia. It didn’t smell bad, but the odor of dirt was overpowering. (So was the 60 mph wind that accompanied the nearby thunderstorm). There isn’t much I can say to describe what the Badlands are like, except that they…

Great faces, great places! When he heard that we were going to South Dakota today, Andy replied, “You will be the first person I know to confirm the existence of South Dakota.” According to Caroline, if you factor in Alaska and Hawaii, South Dakota is the geographic center of America. It doesn’t quite feel like…