Photos Used In This Blog

Many of the photos I use in this blog will be made using my smartphone and others with my DSLR camera. I hope you will not mind me posting with the smartphone since we can do it while we are on the move and from any location where we have phone service. I think the smartphone photos will be of lower quality so I hope you will understand.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Sunday night

We are in Rapid City South Dakota tonight. On the way here today, we visited the Minuteman Missile Historic Site and Badlands National Park.

The Minuteman Missile Historic Site is a nuclear missile site that is no longer in use and is now part of the National Park system. It was preserved so that visitors can see and learn about the Minuteman Missile system. Visitors can go see an underground silo and missile and actually go inside the underground launch control center. It looked like the steel door to the launch control center must have been two and a half feet thick. There is a new visitor's center there as shown in the photo below.
If you would like to learn more about the missile site, you can do it at the link below. I would recommend you visit this site if you are in this area. It is very interesting and such an important part of our national defense.
https://www.nps.gov/mimi/what-is-so-special-about-this-place.htm

We also visited Badlands National Park today. Below are some photos I made there. 





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