As of 8-12-09, "we've" -- meaning Ed's driven 1,532 miles. I plan to drive when the roads get straighter , flatter, and smoother. Ed's leery about me driving so we'll play it by ear. We've been warned that the roads are rough and there is lots of wind ahead of us in the great West.
We left Kansas City, Kansas (Did I mention that part of Kansas City is in Missouri?) Tuesday morning and had an uneventful trip to Onawa, Iowa. The fields are as flat and huge as I remember from our family vacation eons ago. They grow corn and soy beans. We're puzzled by the fields of soy beans -- some fields have only soy beans while others have lots of weeds and quite a few stalks of corn sticking up all over the field.
Our campground was called On-Ur-Wa RV park, which was very close to I-29. It had been there a while, judging by the large trees that were laid out in rows. The lady who checked us in is also the mayor of Onowa. We walked across the street to eat at McDonald's and had great fun reading the local paper. It made the Daily News Record back home look sophisticated!
At 11 a.m. we entered Sioux City, South Dakota. 70 miles later, we got to Sioux Falls, SD, where we got off I-29 and picked up I-90. By the way, Ed would skip Mt. Rushmore. He was there years ago and said it was no big deal. Sorry, Ed, this stop is NOT negociable! It appears that the campgrounds aren't full now so we can follow our pattern of driving until Ed gets tired. Signing off from South Dakota!
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