Baymont Inn Sioux City Airport

... own rabbitry and knows a lot about them.
They disliked the car ride and I disliked saying goodbye.
Due to construction, we drove around Kansas City for 2 hours.

Celebrated Nick's birthday by going out for drinks at a chill bar.

... ha, das hat aber nicht geklappt. Egal.

Roadtrip!!

So nach 8 stunden (mit pipi pause und essen) sind wir in Omaha angekommen und haben meinen Cousinen getroffen. Es gibt Gary, Lonnie, Carrie, Ashley und Wellesley. Gary, Lonnie, Holly und ihrer Freund Sean und ich sind trinken gegangen. Alles war schön im ordnung bis holly mir was böldes gesagt und wir haben gestritten. Es war doof. Teresa hat gesagt, holly ist unter viel drück wegen ...

... De Soto found it way back when. We had lunch in an original ice cream parlour that had the original decor and fittings dating back to the 1800's. Hot dog was great, the coffe we sniffed then left on the table. We then made our way to Sioux City, Iowa after a few stops at Webster and Rockwell where ther was a threat of a possible twister. No such luck. We had a drink in the bar and started to bond with some English sisters. We laughed SO much.

... across South Dakota to our destination for the night, the North Sioux City KOA Kampground. On the way, Maggie pointed out that we were going right by the famous Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. It's listed in the book 1000 Places To See Before You Die. So of course, we had to stop. The local corn farmers have been decorating this with corn cobs and corn husks after the harvest each year since 1892.

... between Rapid City and Sioux Falls SD is like driving around Ritzville for 5 hours at 80 miles an hour. On the iPod: Not much of anything today...not sure why that is. Compensation for an oops: Bob got his photo take in front of a fake Mt. Rushmore at Wall Drug.

Have any of you been to the Mall of America? Well, we stopped there for lunch today. I was so excited to experience the materialism of America. You know, I walked around that thing for 2 hours. It is just a mall, only bigger. Yeah, they had some neat stores, but it was just a mall. And yeah, they did have a roller coaster in the center, but I wasn't about to get on that thing with all the screaming kiddies. So needless to ...

... We had another quirk-filled day in South Dakota. Immediately upon entering Highway 90 East out of Rapid City, we were inundated with signs advertising Wall Drug 51 miles away in Wall, S.D., so of course we set our GPS for a stop. If you aren't familiar with Wall Drug, it is tourist attraction with the same advertising zeal (we saw our first billboard in Wyoming actually) and general road trip stop appeal as South of the Border, but with a Western town theme. It ...

... After that we drove on up I-29 North towards Sioux City through more water-logged fields which seemed odd as it was blazing sun at 86F. At one point the highway went down to one lane as the other lane was pure mud. Apparantly St Louis may now be in danger of some flooding. Usual stop at McDonalds for a late lunch - there are lots of them, they are very cheap and the food is ok. I had a chicken wrap and the best strawberry ...

We're in Nebraska!! A new state for both Allison and I! We have been asking ourselves, "Why has nobody ever mentioned how cool Nebraska is??" It's beautiful! But, first, we spent most of the day in South Dakota.
We got up in Wall, saw our two neighbors, gave a sheepish smile, packed up and left. We went to the crazy Wall Drug shopping metropolis. Nobody go there. I'm sure Allison's dad would say it stinks. It was packed by the time we got there. One neat thing was that ...

... least, a nice drive. After that we had a long drive across South Dakota ahead of us. Not much other than straight roads, grassland, and some rain. We did, on the advice of three people, stop in Mitchell to see the Corn Palace. This is a building that gets decorated with corn every year. Never really thought of corn as an artistic medium, but it actually worked here. Two sides of this large building have murals of ...