Day 4 arrived at Badlands national park

Rained off and on untill we arrived at the Badlands. Temperature in high 70's. Drove thru the Badlands. took lot of pictures. We decided not to camp in the Badlands, because they did not have electric hookups. We went on to Wall, SD, which is famous for Wall Drugs. We camped at Sleepy Hollow campground and then walked over to Wall Drugs. Took lot of pictures, of T-Rex the Dinasour, and me riding and standing beside various animals. We ate supper at Wal drugs. Barb just had cheesebuger, but I had the Buffalo burger. Thats about the highlights for today.

Day 3 reached South Dakota

It Sunday night and got a campsite at the Palisades state park. The park is just east of Sioux Falls, SD. Pulled in about 5 PM, set up camp, and went for a bike ride to see the sites, before dark. An elderly gentleman sort of found us, told us he was looking for a certain rock that he had took a picture of his wife in 1943. We think she was no longer living, but did not ask. He proceeded to show us where balanced rock and other highlights of this canyon of pink rock. We left camera at truck so no pics. We finally got away and rode back to camper for supper. It was quite hilly , pushed bikes a lot. The temperature was in lower 60's thru Iowa and Minnesota. Got to South Dakota it jumper to higher 70's, and had to get out fan. Beautiful clear skies. Time to quit rattling on and go to bed, tomorrow is another 350 mile drive to the badlands. Send more tomorrow if we got internet connection.

Day 2 crossed Mississippi river

Barb and I are camped about 16 miles north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Yesterday traffic was terrible between home and Indianapolis. Today after we got past Indianapolis there was very little traffic to Cedar Rapids. Weather turned a little cooler, in the lower 60's, but feels great. Camped in National recreation area, all the electric sites were full, so had to camp in tent area with no electric. Am running my computer from truck battery. The Sprint signal is also very weak here. Having a fine time, not much else happened. Ohio state beat Washington, thats great.