Driving from Rapid City to Sioux Falls

We didn't do much yesterday, but I did wash several loads of laundry at the laundromat across from our campsite. It is one of the small laundromats that are located throughout the campground, so there are only 2 washers and 2 dryers in it.

We got up at 7:00 this morning and left the campground about 8:20. We stopped at the Flying J on I-90 east of Rapid City to get gas in the RV (25 gal @ $3.479 a gal after $.02 discount).

We passed by Wall, SD which is home to the famous roadside stop "Wall Drug Store" (one of the places we haven't visited yet) and saw their 80' dinosaur alongside the interstate.

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We stopped for an early lunch at a parking area on I-90 just west of Murdo, SD. No sooner were we back on the road when we saw this "town" which is a roadside attraction called "1880 Town" that is a collection of historic buildings from South Dakota.

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A little later we crossed into the Central Time Zone and I-90 wound through rolling hills.

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We crossed the Missouri River about noon. We stopped at a rest area on the east side of the Missouri River at Chamberlain, SD and I took photos of the river and the bridge we drove over.

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Just west of Montrose, SD we saw this huge head of a bull sitting on a hill on the south side of I-90. The sun was really bright when I took the photo, so the head is mostly shadowed.

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There were more sculptures and I couldn't take photos fast enough. I searched the internet tonight and found out that the sculptures are in Porter Sculpture Park.

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We arrived at Sioux Falls around 5:00 and stopped at the Flying J to get gas (54.3 gal @$3.379 a gal after our $.02 discount). There were several semi trucks parked at the Flying J that were hauling wind turbine blades. I managed to get a photo as we were leaving the Flying J. You realize how large the blades are when they are compared to the truck cab.

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We are spending the night here in Sioux Falls at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on the east side of town.

It would have been nice to stop at some of the roadside attractions we saw today, but we had 360 miles to travel and there just wasn't time. Tomorrow we will be driving to Forest City, IA to the Winnebago plant. We have an appointment for Monday morning to have some repairs done.