Sheraton Sioux Falls Hotel

... a lovely couple and I hope you are reading this Connie and Neil you are welcome at our place if you are ever down under. We set of to find interstate 90 eating apples only picked yesterday<br><br>We travel on 90 going past corn field after corn field with the occasional dairy or pig farm in between very few animals grazing as we assume it is to cold in the winter. All the farms have large barns for their livestock.<br><br>On this ...

LABOR DAY and people were taking time to enjoy an overcast day in Sioux Falls, Falls Park. Dozens of cyclists on the river bike path, dogs and kids running about. Charlie and I sat outside at the Falls Café and had a sandwich, sharing a table with a nice couple who had come to bicycle the whole path around downtown and back. <br> The Big Sioux River cascades down many stepped down Sioux quartzite layers. All over, the falls were peppered with people standing in the water ...

... we took, led straight to a herd of sheep out in the meadow, along the road and crossing the road. Several cars pulled up beside me as we furiously snapped photos.<br><br>Near the exit on the East side, I stopped at a "Original Homestead". Inside the store entrance, I bought a couple of souvenirs for my grand-daughters. (Ha, ha, now you'll have to keep guessing for weeks, girls!). <br><br>From Badlands to Sioux Falls was a long ...

A stop over in this small town after a long day. <br><br>We called into Cracker Barrel for a meal before heading for the Holiday Inn. This was the first time visiting Cracker Barrel despite our number of trips to the US in the past. Shame really as the meal was good. It's an early start tomorrow.<br><br>Chicago tomorrow

We entered Sioux Falls around 4pm. It was hot and stuffy when we arrived so after setting up our motor home we went straight to the pool, only to discover that it was completely covered in leaves. it looked as though no one had swam in it in a while. But as we found out its going to take allot more than leaves to stop the pringles from swimming. So we went in anyways. Morgan so ...

... the bones of nearly 60 mammoths, and they have another 45 feet of depth to study. It was great to be able to see these actual remains and learn about the process used to uncover and study them.<br><br>After Hot Springs, we drove 6 hours through the badlands to Sioux Falls. It had to be one of our longest drives through vast, bland landscape! Tomorrow we travel to our final destination, as chosen by the girls, the Mall of America. What a way to end this incredible journey!

From Indianapolis we headed to South Dakota passing signs for 'Wall Drug' for miles along the interstate?! We spent the evening with Pam &amp; Matt in Sioux Falls. <br><br> <br><br><br> We had planned to go to a baseball game for the evening and we arrived eagerly a little while before the game started. As we had tickets that included ...

... nice. There was a chipmunk that I wanted to kill. He got very angry about 5:00am and kept making this crying sound above our tent for what must have been 30 minutes straight.<br><br>== Day 2 ==<br><br>We backtracked from Whitehorse back to Junction 37 (near Watson Lake) and then turned south on the Stewart-Cassiar Highway (BC 37). This highway was scenic in a bit different way as off to the right is the Kluane range (highest in Canada) followed ...

... buy a lot of stuff for just one trip. But anyway, here we go. The plan when we left was to spend a few days crossing South Dakota, then meet up with a few other friends of my uncles for a trip down 'The River of No Return' in Idaho. I love that name by the way. It makes me think of the trip that Teddy Roosevelt took down the 'Rio Roosevelt' in South America back in the early 1900's. Theres an ...

... that would recirculate you for 10 minutes. we decided after lots of looking at it that we werent going to try the 20 footer, mostly because the rock the river is made of is quartzite, one of the hardest rocks there is, which doesnt allow water to erode it very fast. that means the landing for the 20 footer could have been, and probably was, only a few feet deep. neither one of us wanted to start the summer with 2 broken legs, so we ...