Wall Drug.

Located in Wall, South Dakota, the "drug" store is actually a large mall. Part Golden Corral, Stuckeys, First Monday Trade Days in Canton, and amusement park, Wall Drug began, according to their story, as a stopping place for people traveling the highway. Things weren't going well so they began offering water for 5 cents. People stopped and have kept stopping.

We stopped on our way to Badlands. We explained the place to the other members of our family, who have not been to South Dakota before, as a place not worth it's own visit but worth a stop if traveling somewhere else. The exit for Wall also is the same for the western entrance to Badlands National Park.

We timed our stop to coincide with lunch so we ate and walked around for awhile. There was one of those areas in the rear of the store where there are holes in the concrete and water shoots out of the holes in an unpredictable manner. Jeb and Erin "dodged" the water. After we ate, we allowed them to get as wet as they wanted.

Leslie and I first visited Wall Drug over thirteen years ago on our first trip to South Dakota. We, then as now, were traveling to the Badlands. We knew nothing of the place but were pelted with signs on Interstate 90 advertising the place to such a frenzy that it became a must stop.

Next, Badlands. I would write more, but we are on our way to Babe's Chicken House.