Sioux Falls, SD Aug 5

Made it to Sioux Falls after a 4 hour drive. Neither Betsy or I are finding the route boring or monotonous. We're both enjoying seeing the farms and open country. We experienced about 10 minutes of totally open road today (road in which we could see no other cars), but I'm not seeing the totaly empty highways of Minnesota and South Dakota I expected. There are lots of Harley riders heading for Sturgis, SD for motorcycle week next week.

Stopped for a picnic lunch in a park on route. We figured out that we'll be in Jackson, WY the same time as Pete, Katie, Jake and Zach so we're making plans on how to hook up. We're going to see a free LAZER light show tonight at a local park.

Took the kids to a nice laser light display at the Sioux City Falls park last night. They told the history of Sioux City. It's been cool to link up the various things we learned ove rthe course of the trip. Last night they talked about Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark in one of their segments. The falls are pretty, not spectacular (they don't really drop a lot) but unique and interesting to look at. In the last 30 years the city of Sioux Falls has done a lot of work restoring their older downtown historic buildings and it shows. For a city of a little over 100K it's got a lot going for it.

Now we're off to Rapid City with stops at all the tourist places on route. The Corn Palace and Wall Drug.