Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Seventy More Miles to Wall Drug and More!
7:57 AM | 
Posted by
Teresa Smith
If you've traveled our nation's highways or even the world's highways you've more than likely witnessed a Wall Drug sign somewhere along your journey. For most travelers Wall Drug is an experience explained best in the lyrics to the 70's song Buttercup by The Foundations.
Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup,
baby Just to let me down (let me down)
and mess me around...So build me up (build me up)
Buttercup, don't break my heart.
For most, Wall Drug is just that, a giant let down. For miles and miles across the barren prairie land of South Dakota, the signs have lured your attention and built your anticipation for what? A store filled with nicknack's and souvenirs. Who buys souvenirs anyway?
But for me, seeing the sign that I had arrived in Wall Drug country meant everything. It was like witnessing Spring's first buttercup, the little wild flower with yellow blooms.
I had driven my '66 GTO from western Black Hills of Dakota to the central Badlands for more than a photo of Mt. Rushmore made place mat.
I was anticipating Wall Drug because it meant that I only had 20 more miles until would get to see her again. She was more than a buttercup. She didn't build me up and let me down or break my heart. She was my future wife. She would become the mother of my children. She would become my soul mate. She was worth the wait, worth the drive, she was the Wall Drug and More!
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