What a difference a day makes! Last night we were serenaded by Canada geese, thunderstorms, and train whistles...and this morning, we saw two wild turkeys crossing the campground....and a large flock of some kind of tern whirling over the Niobrara River. It was also raining, and I had to rewire the U-Haul trailer because the campground attendant who followed me into the campground told me that the trailer lights were "all screwed up!" Sure enough...despite the U-Haul man assuring me everything was OK, the brake, signal, and tail lights WERE all screwed up. But now they are "OK" after some judicious cutting and splicing.
After breakfast, we got away about 9:00a and headed north toward Mission, South Dakota. Intermittent rain and a 30-knot crosswind slowed us for the first couple of hours, but then we turned east on Interstate 90 and just sailed along. Katie drove another 100 miles...and we connected with Jerry, an old friend of hers in Sioux Falls.
Tonight we are in Pipestone, Minnesota, at a very nice campground with both hot showers and wi-fi...so all is well with the world! Tomorrow we are off to Plymouth, MN, to visit with my niece and her husband...and then on to River Falls, Wisconsin, to see my sister and her husband! The Georgetown continues to motor along, and we are settling into a routine that includes lots of music from the '60's and '70's.
Pipestone National Monument is at the site of a quarry used by the Dakota Indians to mine the soft red stone that they used to make ceremonial peace pipes. It is also at the edge of the Tall Grass Prairie, a seemingly endless expanse of 8'-10' grass that stretched beyond the horizon to the West.
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