On the road again ....

After a few short days we had to bail on the Black Hills and head east again.

We checked out of the KOA but this morning we went to town for breakfast. The food was delicious and less expensive than the KOA's Chuckwagon.

Full up, we rode out of town. At Wall, Paul and Amanda left us to check out Wall Drug and the Badlands - we would see them in Sioux Falls. Maybe. (the rest of us had already seen Wall Drug and the Badlands). This was not clearly communicated to all, as we lost some of our riders. We have been using the Sena SMH10 bluetooth helmet transmitters, which in the past have worked great. But on this trip they haven't worked too well, and we just gave up on using them for intercoms (my unit was inconsistently reachable ... and will be going back for warranty service/replacement soon). We also had a snafu with Rob, and Bill, and a Bee, which I don't entirely remember the details of. In any case, we met up in Interior, SD, to tour the Missle Man silo. My brother didn't have as much vacation as us and weren't planning on staying in Sioux Falls, so he pushed on through and was home at a reasonable hour.

So. The Missile Man Silo. Apparently, this National Park or Monument or whatever apparently is officially at the Interior exit. They a little exhibit. But .. the silo is back west 15 miles at Wall Drug, and the control center, 20 miles to the east, with tours a couple times a day which we weren't willing to wait a few hours for. What a disappointment. We rode on.

And we rode.

And we rode.

Holy crap I-90 in South Dakota is boring. We stopped at a gas station. Brett and Mark left us here, and pushed on home.

Then in Sioux Falls, Tim showed us the way to his in-laws. These gracious hosts put a bunch of us up for the night, fed us meat and potatoes and broccoli salad, ice cream nuts chocolate dessert, AND breakfast the next day! These are great people - with a Norwegian heritage, we had some nice discussions, and ooogled their new lawn tractor next to our bikes in the garage.

I should also mention that Paul and Amanda arrived as well .. and then Chuck did too. Our last night of the trip, Rob came through with a case of good IPAs!