A Theodore Roosevelt-themed father-son road trip did not go as planned
A trip to the Badlands offered lessons in boyhood — and manhood.
From The Times
December 1, 2025

A writer took his 8-year-old son on a Theodore Roosevelt-themed road trip to the Badlands in an attempt to toughen him up.

A landscape of the Badlands in South Dakota, with a road curving along a grassy area through rugged rocky peaks.

Gregory Halpern/Magnum, for The New York Times

Things didn’t go as planned. →

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