We are in south dakota

well i tried to get creative with directions and wanted to get off the beaten interstate. but we got lost for the first time on the trip. so our shortcut made us backtrack and we didn't save any time at all. still, we saw some cool back roads of minnesota. highway 60 was a canvas of beautiful cornfields and cow pastures.

for lunch, we took a weird detour. we wound up at some tiny store in buffalo ridge, south dakota where we had quarter-pound buffalo burgers! the place was a shoddy old deli/convenience store/gift shop, complete with five buffalo heads displayed on the walls.



the "dining" area was stocked with plush buffalo dolls and all kinds of strange memorabilia. our burgers were $3.50 each - pricey for the area?

we did a very long stretch in south dakota, racing against the sun to get to our important destinations of the day. eastern south dakota was a little boring, with long stretches of the same old same old - corn fields, cow pastures, etc. beautiful of course, especially with blue skies and 70 degree weather. the speed limit out there is 75 so we were flying.