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Hiking the Badlands

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June 2nd 2007
This has been a truly amazing day! (But do you know how hard is was to not type a-maize-ing?...Corn Palace, remember?) Yes, we did stop at the Corn Palace. It was the first stop of the day and it had been misting and raining until we got within about 10 miles (which turned out to be the standard for the day.) It was really impressive actually. It is redecorated every year using 600,000 ears of co ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more