Day
5 – 5-16-15 Saturday I didn't mention yesterday that the good thing
about all the rain was I didn't have to wash any bugs off the
windshield and front end of the MH like I had the previous three
nights.
We
cooked breakfast and left Independence at 7:20AM. We drove about two
hours and stopped for fuel and continued on through Missouri. Lots of
very large farms with open fields as far as you could see. We crossed
into Iowa and the beautiful farm land continued. Some of the fields
by the Interstate were very wet so they must have had some heavy
rains recently. The land was kind of rolling with rarely a tree
anywhere except some small one near the Interstate. We stopped for a
lunch break at a rest stop. The rest stops in Iowa have free WiFi and
some also have a free dump station for RV,ers. The roads were in good
shape in Missouri and Iowa except for the areas around Omaha. The
roads there were really rough. We crossed into South Dakota and
stopped for the night in Souix Falls SD at the Souix Empire Fair
Grounds Campground about 2PM. It is not quite as nice as it sounded
on the Internet but for one night it is okay. The farm land in South
Dakota was flatter than in Iowa and Missouri and we saw several very
large cattle feed lots with hundreds of cows in them.
The
campground host was nice and gave us a site so we didn't have to
unhook the toad. We decided to change our stop for tomorrow night so
we would have one stop in Wyoming rather than another stop in South
Dakota. It will add another 30 miles to tomorrow's drive but we don't
have but one town of any size to get through so we should be able to
make the 420 mile drive without any delays. There was some road
construction today but did not delay us other than just slowing down
to a slower speed for a few miles. We have been fortunate to not have
any significant roads delays. We were delayed a few minutes yesterday
for a auto accident where a 18 wheeler and a car didn't play nice
with each other. We noticed in Iowa when they repair a large section
of road or bridge on the Interstate they rip the whole road up and
completely repave it.
Well
it is time to go out and wash today's bug off the front end.
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