Driving Day

The photo is the Missouri River near Fort Mandan site of winter camp for Lewis and Clark.
The goal today was to knock out a bunch of miles so we would arrive in Iowa City at a decent time. It was not hard with a 75 mph speed limit in the Dakotas. We set the cruise at 76 and away we went. Except for slowdowns for construction we rolled along. Even with the slowdowns we averaged 73.6 mph and got good milage on the car. They are replacing 12-15 mile chunks of the freeway with cement roads. It was interesting to see how they do that. Lots of highway money being spent here.
Fields of corn and sunflowers line the highway. Don't know when they plan
to harvest--seems like the season is getting late.
We stopped in South Dakota for lunch and was looking at a paper. The sports page had Locker's name in the headline--follows us everywhere! The story slant was slightly different though. We are wondering how hard it will be for the announcers to keep the Huskies and the Huskers straight!
The highlight of yesterday's journey was a stop in Vermillion, SD at the National Music Museum. It is on the USD campus--large building, two floors with 9 galleries. There are instruments dating back to the 1500's through modern times. Amazing collection. If you are even slightly interested in music, make that a place to stop. It is just a little north of Sioux City, Iowa.