Camping in the Rain

Camping exclusively in California can spoil a person in about 0.3 seconds. From April to October, it almost never rains. This ill prepared me for our camping as we drove across the US. The weather report ended up like this:

• Yosemite - located in California. Therefore, no rain
• Tetons - rain
• Yellowstone - rain
• Badlands - tremendous thunderstorm, including lots of lightning, and rain

That last one was especially exciting. When you wake up at 2AM and the tent is flashing more than a strobe light, that's a problem. The storm was far away at that point, but it proceeded to come directly overhead, and resulted in a couple hours of pondering what happens in the event that a tent is struck by lightning.
Despite the rain, we enjoyed the trip immensely. We saw some gorgeous scenery, a black bear on a hike, and stopped at Wall Drug where I had the biggest sticky bun I've ever seen.