There are two stories for today, well, maybe three.
Story 1 – The weather was absolutely spectacular.
Story 2 – The speed limit up here in South Dakota is 80 mph! It is also windy as hell! I now understand why there are so many wind turbine farms up here, but they’re still and eyesore/blight on the landscape and half of them aren’t working, a quarter of them are turning (on electricity, not wind!!!) and the balance is providing how much power???? And for whom???? Now, imagine flying down the road at 80 mph in an RV and one of those wind gusts comes along. Long story short, there is absolutely NO relaxing driving here…it’s white knuckle all the way – taxing on the nerves and exhausting!
Story 3 – I felt like a Mormon pioneer being infested with grasshoppers. They’re EVERYWHERE. I stepped out of the RV and they were jumping around like rice frying in a pan! Hudson thought they were fun to try to catch, but even he tired of them after a while. Oh, and they’re not the only bugs around… there are common, everyday flies in all sizes, stink bugs, ladybugs, wasps and a bunch of bugs I’ve never seen before. Like the people around here though, they’re all friendly and don’t really bother us much.
Tomorrow headed to Mt. Rushmore, my first target stop. It’s supposed to be overcast and cold, but at least I will have seen it and been there!
