21 October 2016, Friday

We leave Rapid City and continue our eastward trek across South Dakota. We resume our driving routine of switching off every 60 miles. This is especially important crossing South Dakota’s hypnotic flat brown landscape. One of our switch-offs is at a rest area where I-90 crosses the Missouri River. Here there is a stainless steel statue of a Native American woman with a blue diamond quilt. The name of the statue is Dignity. There is also an exhibit here about the Lewis and Clark expedition which stopped in this area for a well-deserved break during their explorations of the west.

We drive on to Sioux Falls where we break for a late lunch at Granite City Food and Brewery. It reminds us of Iron Hill in décor. The food is well done and again, we select tasty beers: an Oktoberfest and a Stout. We are even given three large chocolate chip cookies to take with us as first time visitors. After lunch we decide almost 350 miles of driving is enough for one day so we find a nearby motel. We are only about an hour away from our next destination, Pipestone National Monument.