We had a longer day planned for today. We got up fairly early and head out to do the Badlands loop. 65 miles of Badlands. It was awesome. The colors in the rocks were amazing. We visited the following lookouts: yellow mounds, panoramic and white river. We stopped along side of the road several times. Sometimes the best pictures are not at the overlooks. We did skip a couple as we were spending a lot of time there. We saw a bunch of mountain goats. After the scenic route, we stopped at the Badlands trading post where adjacent to it was the building and viewing area of the fields where our government buried 150 silos that house nuclear missiles. AWESOME! They said that just one of these missiles was a powerful as 60% of the ammunition used in WWII. WOW! Just one! And we had 150. Well many of missiles have been disarmed due to a nuclear treaties with Russia.
Moving on.... Heading east on 90 wasn't so bad the first 30 miles then the cross winds came. This is tiresome and painful. Fighting to keep your head straight, your neck and shoulders take a beating. Robaxin was my friend today. We realized we had crossed into another time zone and just lost an hour. It was now 3:30pm. Moving to the next stop just outside of Sioux Falls to gas up. We were only getting 120 miles to the tank. It was the high speed. The speed limit was 75 so 85 seemed appropriate. Since we were just getting our interstate 'legs' back so to speak, we were tired and the weather was cold. The mixture of tired and cold crosswinds had gotten to us. We decided to stop and stay just south of Sioux Falls on 29. Quality Inn was our choice tonight. It was extremely roomy and nice. We drove squid style (well with no helmets) to the Denny's at the opposite end of the entrance road. Back at the hotel the usual went down of pictures and charging, checking the weather (which was not good) than off to bed.
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