So I mentioned Wall Drug in the Badlands post, but really felt that Wall Drug deserved it’s own title…
From the minute we entered South Dakota from Minnesota, roughly 200+ miles away, we started seeing signs for Wall Drug. The signs varied from “Free Ice Water” to “Get Lunch or Be Lunch” (featuring a Dinosaur), to “Wall Drug since 1931”. In the 200+ miles, I would say, without exaggeration, we passed, 20-30 Wall Drug signs… easily.
It totally works… for some reason that neither Tara nor I can explain… we went to Wall Drug. Wall Drug is a giant general store located in Wall, SD. It has essentially taken over the street and is a large shopping area similar to the stockades in Austin, TX.
Wall Drug has everything… the signs weren’t lying. We were able to get lunch, a mini SD card, dish soap, two sponges, (Tara had to stop be from buying a mounted Jackalope head for $120), and as many “Sturgis T’s” stores as you could think of.
Subliminal message or not… Wall Drug got us.
On our way back to our site, we went through the Sage Creek end of the Badlands and got to take in some of the wildlife, bison herd, thousands of prairie dogs, and black horn sheep.
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