Going Home

We left Custer on Thursday to go on to Sioux Falls. I can't believe that it has been almost exactly one year since we were here last time to register the vehicles in South Dakota and get our driver's license. We are getting pretty comfortable with traveling without reservations, since it gives us a chance to see things along the way without being rushed. This leg of our trip is a good example for that. On the way we decided to stop at the South Dakota Air and Space Museum at Ellsworth Airforce Base. It was actually a lot more interesting than I thought. There was a lot of fighter planes and the Minuteman Missile and we actually got a tour of the Airforce Base.




They sure are a lot bigger than I thought. The map showed that there were at one point at least 150 of these Minuteman Missile silos in the Black Hills. Makes you wonder what you are driving on without knowing it.

For the longest time we have been seeing signs along the highway advertising "Wall Drugs". We actually drove by it this time and just had to stop.

It sure is a lot bigger than I thought, but just as much of a tourist trap then we expected. However, it still was fun to just walk through some of it. There are certain things you just have to do along the way, does not matter how cheesy. Since it was getting late, we decided to stop for the night at a campground outside of Presho.

The next morning Doug felt we needed to see the Pioneer Auto Show in Murdo (about 30 miles west of us) before we moved on to Sioux Falls. Even though it brought back a lot of memories of cars he used to have, the place was somewhat run down and we left after an hour. Right now we are in Salem, since there is a rock concert in Sioux Falls and our campground is booked out for the weekend. This campground here is very nice, far enough away from the highway and "only" 40 miles from Sioux Falls. Since we were just a little bit anxious, we did go to the storage area yesterday and dropped of some stuff and got Doug's golf clubs from the storage. Looking at all the boxes I have no idea anymore what we packed in them. Oh well, we will go through them before we empty the storage space .