Ramada Inn Mitchell

... practice on the inside court there. The Palace is pretty cool, all the mosaic pictures made<br>from different coloured corn cobs and bits of corn.<br><br>Staying at the Days Inn tonight, the hotel has the very attractive bonus (at least in the kids eyes) of an indoor water slide/heated pool &#8211; as you can imagine, they got their journals written in double quick time so they could hit the water! Left the kids and Fred to the ...

I have attached three pictures of our scenery that we have seen through upper MO, IA and SD (so far). You can't tell much difference since it is Corn, soy beans, corn, soy beans, etc. We have been told that they are having a good corn crop this year.<br><br>We have seen lots of bikers going and coming from Sturgis. It seems that many bikers come the week before and go on on different "rallys" or rides.<br><br>We went into town to see the ...

Helen Danny and I managed to get on the road as planned early Tuesday morning. We headed out I64 and drove most of the day to reach Kansas City, Mo. where we spent our first night. All has gone well so far.<br><br>We continued on our journey on Wednesday heading north on I29 until we reached I90 our road across South Dakota. We decided to stop at Mitchell, S.D. to see the ":Corn Palace". <br><br>The Corn Palace is a unique ...

... are formations called lacy "boxwork" on the ceilings and popcorn, for example . The cave system is 135 miles on three levels in a one-square mile area. Lunch in the picnic grounds was relaxing, and then we hiked the Wind Cave Canyon Trail looking for birds, but they were smart enough to stay out of the afternoon sunshine. We cut our hike short due to threatening thunderstorms.<br><br>Afterwards, we ...

Despite my 15 year old's objections, I had to see the world's only corn palace. Unfortunately, it was neither as corny nor as palatial as I had hoped. Also, we got lost in town, which, as my son pointed out, was a hard thing to do. We had a nice room though (although, IMO, a bit pricey for a rural spot).

June 7 - Day 1<br><br>St. Lou to St. Joe: <br><br>Ho-Hum<br><br>June 8 - Day 2 <br><br>St. Joseph, MO to Mitchell, SD<br><br>Spent first half of the day watching corn grow in western IA. Had ample opportunity, as Iowa has taken this Stimulus package seriously. Eleven separate construction sites on the 151 miles of I-29 twixt MO and SD! Wish I'd had the concession on orange road work cones for this neck of the woods!<br><br ...

... on the road has not stopped me loving jewelry even if I don&#8217;t wear it as much!!). <br><br><br>Pipestone was also used for the buildings in Pipestone MN. <br>One building had interesting faces that we were told were gargoyles - more like cartoon versions than the gargoyles we saw on the Duomos in Italy. <br><br>We also made a detour to see the Corn Palace in Mitchell SD. If you have ...

... his vehicle with a tape measure only to prove what we already knew - we were too wide and too tall. Chrissy tried to control the traffic and give directions for the RV at the same time, which proved a little challenging for Phil as it was not very clear what each arm signal was actually for. Well the fact that the blog is being written is proof enough that we made it out of that scrape. During all this chaos Monty pretended to be a pile ...

... have my hands free for the 30-step log ladder that we had to climb to get to the upper part of the trail. I thought for sure that my kids were going to lose their lives on the crumbly-dirt cliffs, but Bret assured me that they would be fine. Needless to say, I didn't allow anyone to go too far on that trail. Harmond was begging to carry on after following the path along the edge of cliffs, but Mom (yes, me) was too freaked out to allow it after each of the kids slipped on the trail ...

As Krusty the Clown says.....Hello everybody! Today we started by sleeping in. We figured that since we have covered quite a bit of distance in the past couple of days that we deserved it. After getting up we headed off to Devil's Tower. This was where the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind was filmed.....well were the aliens landed at least. It was quite a site to see, but unfortunally it was all that was in ...