Photos Used In This Blog

Many of the photos I use in this blog will be made using my smartphone and others with my DSLR camera. I hope you will not mind me posting with the smartphone since we can do it while we are on the move and from any location where we have phone service. I think the smartphone photos will be of lower quality so I hope you will understand.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Saturday

We are at Mitchell, SD tonight. We had a wonderful drive today. The temperature was about 72 at the warmest part of the day and it felt so good. By the time we get this far on the trip, there are fewer trucks on the highway and the traffic is really light, so it makes for very pleasant driving. When we got to Kansas City, we turned north on I-29. Then at Sioux Falls, SD, we turned west on I-90. The roads we have been on today and yesterday follow the Lewis and Clark trail. I am including the photos below that gives a little history about the Lewis and Clark expedition.


When we arrived in Mitchell, we visited the Corn Palace. If you are not familiar with the Corn Palace, I will explain a little about it. It is the only existing corn palace in the world. It is decorated using corn to create murals. The original Corn Palace was built in 1892 and each year the murals are created with a different theme. Lots of people stop at Mitchell to visit the Corn Palace. According to the information we saw, about 500,000 people a year visit the palace. 
If you look closely, you should be able to see the ears of corn making up the image of Willie Nelson. 

We were surprised to find the UT/VT football game on TV here, and we are watching the game now.  

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  1. UnknownSeptember 13, 2016 at 7:54 AM

    Interesting. Seems like you continue to visit/camping out West while we stay in the East. We are wanting to go out West someday and maybe could even duplicate one of your trips if you have it written down, that way we already know how fast to drive and where to stop over for the night. Enjoy and love you dad, be safe.

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