Davenport, IA to Kimball, SD

Lol, John and I both just noted that we’re hungry. Quick post and then it’s breakfast-stopping-time. We haven’t really been stopping for meals aside from lunch. We’ve mostly been munching on the care package treats that Nancy packed for us.

Sitting in a Super 8 in Kimball, SD. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it has a population of approximately 750. Out the window it’s pretty much just wide spaces with a few buildings here and there. John gave the ladies at the front desk a bottle of NH syrup and absolutely made their day. I guess they were going on about how expensive it is here and basically acted like it was gold. Very cute. He also verified that the short plants we’ve been seeing are soybeans. The ladies at the desk said wheat has already been harvested (hence us not seeing any and wondering were it all was).

What’d we see between Davenport and Kimball? Um, repeat of the day before… corn, soybeans, corn, soybeans. Less tractor trailer trucks…although they’re still all over the place. The sunset is pretty similar. Little less hazy. The hills are starting to “roll” a bit. We can tell we are heading for higher elevation but it’s so steady that it still seems pretty flat.

I think we’ve passed through quite a few birthplace towns of famous people… can’t remember them all. Few presidents and Laura Ingalls Wilder. We stopped at the World’s Largest Truckstop and passed the World’s Largest Fireworks store (Fremont, IN), World’s Largest bull head (this metal thing in the middle of a field in SD), Corn Palace, and now I can’t remember everything else I was trying to make a mental note of.

Today’s agenda is: Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Badlands National Park, Black Hills National Forest, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Custer, Jewel Cave, Bear Country, Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wall Drug… and crossing into another time zone.

We’ll be heading for Wyoming…somewhere. Yellowstone tomorrow. Click on the photos below to see the Picasa album.