June 4th A Cooler Day

Today was almost 400 miles of uneventful driving.  We went through 4 states: Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska & South Dakota. We will stay in South Dakota for a few days.  We took a slight detour in order to count Nebraska. We saw some pretty farms and little towns. We had to pay $1.00 to cross an old iron bridge over the Missouri River to get back on track. The river is still at flood stage. We then went to Sioux City for lunch. There were people at a civic center there filling sand bags and big trucks there hauling them away. Many of the farms had huge mounds of dirt to hold back the flood waters. Jim did some fancy turn arounds on the interstate today. All went well. We went to The Corn Palace here in Mitchell where we are today. It is a fancy, huge building that has the outside decorated with real corn. There are murals on the outside that they change annually. We had a nice dinner at a restaurant called The Depot. Jim knew about it because of a recent trip he made on his Honda motorcycle. Tomorrow we will head towards the Badlands.