Wall Drug

Hello from the Gold Standard of Tourist Traps, Wall Drug, in Wall, SD!  A truly phenomenal experience.  Plus they have wi-fi in the Prairie Food Parlor,  in the "backyard." (It's closed for the day -- no food service -- but the wi-fi still works fine.)   Now headed to Rapid City with hotel booked :-)

It's been a beautiful drive today through southern Minnesota and across South Dakota.  This is a beautiful country with very friendly people.  I stopped to see the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD -- that was interesting!  I never saw so many weird corn and popcorn products in one place!  Plus the Palace itself, with its motifs made from real corn and corn silks, was pretty amazing.  I didn't realize they do it over again each year, which made it that much more awesome.

Towards the end of the day, I began to be driving through the Badlands, which are quite beautiful, in a desolate and mysterious sort of way.   I'll try to post photos of this tomorrow as I didn't get any real good ones today.