Traveling with the rest of the Wiriadisastras without Fika was very interesting. We decided to road trip to South Dakota from Iowa, it was a good distance trip and a good cause as well; none of us had been in South Dakota before. I started to do a little research on what to do in the state, but of course I've always had wanted to see the Mt. Rushmore; who doesn't? But anyway, we drove though the Badlands, where the "devil" supposed to pass, thus it was named "les mauvaises Terres" - the Badlands, by French explorers. It almost felt like passing through movie stage, with fake colorful hills and unreal, just like Daly paintings. Quote from Frank Lloyd Wright, what I saw gave me an indescribable sense of mysterious otherwhere - a distant architecture, ethereal,
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