Vacation 2010

Here's vacation in a quick outlined & pictures included version

Left on August 26th (Thursday) around 3 pm.... our route took us up thru Utica & then across to LA, Arkansas & Missouri. We drove straight thru the night, so no pictures to show...

27th travels took us thru Iowa & South Dakota....South Dakota...aka the Bad Lands...let me tell ya, it pretty much sucked! The stretch between Sioux Falls & Rapid City was for the birds!! There is a stretch of almost 400 miles of nothing .. literally nothing

but maybe a rest area and if you saw the little tee-pee, you best be stopping because that is the only form of civilization till the next little town that may be miles away... every now and then you saw a little "town art"or in this case some field art ...Looking from my side mirror back to where we just came...HOT...DRY...WINDY and let me tell you that 400 mile stretch had you...if you needed gas and were lucky enough to make it to one of the gas stations, you paid almost 40cents higher...hotel room in the one town was almost $90 for an Econo Lodge that wasn't nothing to it... but it's now 4pm on Friday and we've been traveling for 24+ hours and we gladly took the Econo lodge hotel room, found a over priced Dairy Queen in the little town of Walls and called it an evening. And for the first time in forever, I was asleep by 7 pm.

More to come tomorrow...and it's the good part of South Dakota!!!