South Dakota Trip Day Eight

Greetings from Sioux Falls, SD! We have the first leg of our journey home completed, and are now in Sioux Falls until Sunday morning. We plan to spend tomorrow walking around the downtown area. There are art pieces (sculptures) on the downtown streets, as well as an Arts Festival downtown. It is a day of R & R, with no set plan or itinerary. I'll send some select pictures of the art and Falls Park tomorrow night.

I want to tell you the story of Belvidere. It is a small town along I-90, and we were starting to get low on gas, so we decided to give Belvidere a chance. They had a gas station (sort of) close to the highway, but the price was very high. In the distance was the town of Belvidere, so we decided to look for a station a little further from the road. We found no gas station, or people for that matter. What we found was a town as close to a ghost town as it could be. The "town" was two streets long and two streets wide (gravel, no pavement except for the main road through town). The only two living things we saw were two dogs who did not look friendly. So, we turned around, bypassed the station on the exit, and drove on to find gas further down the road. Here are some images of Belvidere:

This was the meat market!

The high point of our day was a stop at Wall Drug. We had fun looking around at all the stuff, and had fun being silly tourists too. We had lunch in Wall before continuing eastward.

Here is Denis with his new girlfriend:

Here is Susan with her new boyfriend:

The world famous, one and only Wall Drug: (and they really sell drugstore items as well as prescriptions there too!)

More tomorrow from Sioux Falls.

Susan and Denis