I don’t give a damn for the same old played out scenes

Badlands, of course. And Badlands National Park in South Dakota yesterday.

It was brutally hot there but it is hard to imagine that this landscape would be welcoming on the mildest spring day. North Dakota and eastern Montana are flat, but the land around these badlands has no hills, no rises, not even a bump. It's almost perfectly two-dimensional. Then the prairie cracks open and falls away into canyons full of rock formations surrounding more empty plains stretching into forever.