We have spent the last couple of days with no cell or wi-fi in some of the most beautiful but remote areas, the North and South Units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. We left Lewis and Clark State Park and went in search of bison on Monday 9/28 and they were there waiting for us as soon as we drove into the park! We saw them while hiking, and driving, and one even tried to come for breakfast!

A lane was closed in the mountains so we had to take turns and had to wait for this guy because he got there first!

It is a beautiful and majestic place, I can understand why Roosevelt loved it here.

 Here's a short shaky movie from this overlook that shows how vast and desolate the landscape is. Never mind, couldn't get it to upload :(  Maybe I will figure it out later.

Alas, we don't have all the time in the world so we had to move on to the South Unit where we hoped to see some promised prairie dogs. Besides, we were in danger of starving (we were out of beer and bread). On the way we took a picture of some of the housing quickly put into use for the booming oil industry. We saw many trailer parks with FEMA type trailers and RVs, bunk houses renting for $25 per night, and apartments advertising one bedroom units as low as $2100 a month.Yikes, I sure hope they are paying these guys well because they are gouging them on housing. And, I say guys because the towns seem to be populated by mostly young men!

As we arrived at the South Unit, we took a hike in the painted canyon. No bison on the trail but plenty of evidence of them passing by recently!

A herd of wild horses. don't they look healthy?!

A herd (?) of prairie dogs.The prairie dog towns were amazing, hundreds of them running, digging, whistling. Very comical!

I will leave you with a few more pictures of the South unit as Denny is itching to go and this is getting very long!

I'll have to finish this later as we are now headed to Custer State Park in the Black Hills and soon Mt Rushmore. Having more fun than should be legal :)