Made it to Mitchell, SD as we still had plenty of daylight and won't have such a long trip tomorrow to the Badlands. Drove for 518 miles - left at 7:15 and made it to Mitchell at 4 pm. Lots of windmills, cornfields and Great Plains. I sure am glad I wasn't traveling with Lewis and Clark back in 1802. You can see from horizon to horizon probably 50 miles in any direction. It must have been daunting in a sea of shoulder high prairie grass. Too bad they didn't have I80 - it made it so much easier instead of having to drag the boats up the Missouri River - whew.
DeSmet, SD is the home of Laura Ingalls Wilder. who knew that Des Moines meant the monks?
We are going to the Corn Palace (worlds largest bird feeder) - we are eager to see the corn palace which we had seem many signs for along the highway. It should be "bushels" of fun and wish you were "ear". Will report on that later. If you want to see it go to www.VisitMitchell.com
Dave wanted to say a few things about the driving - through me - the transcriptionist.
"Twenty years ago a 500 mile day of driving was totally exhausting. yesterday, Lisa and I drove 700 miles and today over 500 miles and we feel fully functional. It's very interesting as to why. First is cruise control. It has changed driving unbelieveably. The driver doesn't have to concentrate on maintaining a constant speed - just keeping it between the lines. Once you decide on a non-arrestable speed and punch it in - life is good. You're sitting there in your lazyboy, snacks at the ready, co-pilot on immediate call in aid of said snacks. It is no longer work to drive. Traffic was amazingly kind. One expects heavy volume but we were pleasantly surprised at sparce auto and truck traffic. Sometimes we had the highway to ourselves."
Driving was easy - not a lot of traffic Probably due to the fact that the speed limit was 75 mph and we were doing 68 mph to save on gas.
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