Wednesday, July 18

Wednesday: July 18

Drove 445 miles

We headed west from Wisconsin Dells to the Mississippi River and crossed over into Minnesota. We stopped to take a picture or two to mark this milestone.

Then we bounced our way across Minnesota on I90. MN has those concrete highways where the joints have risen up about ½ foot so it literally made the truck and trailer bounce. The roads were so awful that at one point I asked Tim to pull off and stop so I could put on a sports bra. Then I remembered I didn’t own a sports bra. But it would have been a great thing if I had. ?

I had packed us a lunch before we took off this morning so around noon we pulled into a rest stop for another gourmet treat – PB&J sandwiches and chips!

When we FINALLY crossed the state line into South Dakota, we pulled into the Visitor Center and picked up some brochures to plan our stay. We were headed for The Black Hills area which is in the north western area of the state so we still had quite a way’s to go.

About 80 miles into South Dakota we decided to call it a day, and so we exited I90 for our first night at Wally World! Yes, that’s right. We stopped in Mitchell, SD, (home of the Corn Palace!) at a Walmart Super Center. What a hoot. Next morning I counted 9 RV’s besides ours in their parking lot. We had heard that they welcome RV’ers because they can always count on them to come in to the store and buy things. We were no exception to that rule. But as the old guy told me in Townsend, TN, “If Walmart don’t have it, you don’t need it!”

We didn’t have electric but the gas stove works just fine so I fixed us some ham steak, Brussels sprouts, and pasta for dinner. My cooking skills seem to be deteriorating with each day I’m away from my cookbooks.

At least we had good cell phone coverage there, so we researched some campgrounds out in The Black Hills and picked one called Rafter J Bar Ranch outside of Hill City, SD.

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