South Dakota to Minnesota

1880 Town, Murdo, SD

I love the electric and Shell gas signs in the olde western towne.  

Lost another hour here too.

We stopped for gas in this teeny tiny town, and now I wish I'd take a few more pictures and found out what town it was.

Missouri River in South Dakota.

Mirage of water on the road.

I SO want to see this someday.  But it was very far out of our way.

Porter Sculpture Park in Montrose, SD.  Who knew South Dakota had so many things to see?

We'd stayed in Brandon, SD overnight and arrived in Minnesota the next day.  Shooting into the early morning light made for bad photos.

I cannot believe there's a museum devoted to SPAM.  I mean, ew.  Ew ew ew.

Crossing the Mississippi River, which divides Minnesota and Wisconsin

I Wanna Spit in the Face of These Badlands....

Just beating everyone to the punch by quoting the Bruce Springsteen song now.

Here's another South Dakota landmark that we didn't have time to visit, but could see a lot from I-90.

So that's where Sasquatch lives!!!  All this time I was looking for it on the west coast.

We saw so much cattle on this trip that my sweetie was dying for a steak or prime rib.

Wall Drug, Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug was the only place that I absolutely insisted upon stopping at on this trip, because I knew it was just right off the highway.  Needless to say once you leave Rapid City, you are constantly reminded to stop there due to the many, many clever billboards along the way!  I started to shoot them but there were just too many!

On the way to Wall.

They really do sell coffee for .05 cents.

Jackalope heads.  The jackalope joke is well known in the mid west and western states.

We had lunch here.  I had a bison burger and Russell had the lunch buffet.

Inside the main building.

Fortune Teller Pappy

There's even a small chapel.

Russell had so hoped to see a live buffalo along the trip, but this was the best we could get.

In the mining company building, they had a replica of a water sluice.  You could buy a bag of dirt with 'treasures' inside, shake the dirt into the sluice pan and shake it out under the water of the sluice to reveal the pretty stones and (fake) arrowheads.  We came away with a nice sack of them!!!

Here is the obligatory, "Badgers?!  Badgers?!  We don't need no steenking badgers!"  joke