Nice, relaxing day today. And, oh, the sites we saw today.
Well, the day started out with a forecast of rain all day. When we left, it was pretty overcast; I brought my full rain regalia (rain coat, rain pants and cinches to tie the pants legs to my legs and rain booties). Thank goodness I did not need them today. As the day went on, it got really nice, no rain at all; we were all very lucky.
I just thought that this was a really cool farm house I saw on the way.
South Dakota has a crazy bad fly problem, we see tons of house and horse flies. Worse than that, been seeing a lot of mosquitoes also. Then, when we got back to the hotel today, and put on the TV, there was a commercial about mosquitoes. South Dakota has has the largest number of West Nile Virus cases in the United States, so be careful. One more thought on insects, every now and then you see stacks of bee hives by the side of the road, and as you ride by them, the bees seem to be swarming all around the hives and the roads. A little scary.
Well, around mile 10 of the ride today, we were supposed to ride itno Pukwana. And in Pukwana, we were supposed to find the the Nascar Lawnmower race course and the Puk You Bar. Well, we never say the signs and when we got back to the hotel, we were told, the mosquitoes down there were just horrible. Guess it is a good thing we missed this one, or two.
Around mile 20, we found the South Dakota Tracker Museum.
KER-PLUNK is how the leaders described the road last night at the Route Rap. The road was more like a side walk, large cement squares/slabs. Each slab has a gap in between. Some of the gaps are larger than others, and a lot of the slabs are uneven. So every time you go over one of the gaps, it feels like a bump and it actually feels like ker-plunk. Here is a short clip of the road.
As we came into the town of Mitchell, I went by a John Deere Tractor dealer, here is a short clip:
Then at the end of the ride, we went to the only Corn Palace in the world, in Mitchell, SD. It was pretty cool. All of this art is composed of ears of corn fastened to the wall to make the murals inside and outside of the Palace.
No comments:
Post a Comment