July 15, 2013 Took a day to see the sights in the area. One place that is a must see is the Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota. We drove the 90+ miles on I-90 east to Wall, South Dakota. We found the café and boy was it crowded. Got there about 1:00 p.m. and figured the lunch crowd would be finished eating.....wrong. We found out that Wall Drug draws up to twenty thousand people on a good summer day.....okay, we didn't know that before we went. Guess we should have gone on a rainy day. Believe everyone decided to take advantage of this beautiful summer day.
Wall Drug Store started by offering Free ice water to those passing their town on route 16A. It started out with 326 people back in December 1931.
It taught the owners that there's absolutely no place on God's earth that's Godforsaken. No matter where you live, you can succeed, because wherever you are, you can reach out to other people with something that they need...even if it is as small as ICE WATER.
Then on to the Badlands. The Badlands got its name when the French trappers who explored the west in the early 1800's called the area a "bad land to cross."
Badlands coloring. The Badlands have vibrant colors caused by mineral deposits. The layers containing tinges of oxidized manganese have a purple cast. Iron oxide in small quantities produced the orange and the layers. The volcanic ash, dropped by westerly winds from the Rockies, produced the white layers...in places where the ash fell and mixed with silt and clay in the streams, it produced the dirty grey layers.
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