2020 Trip To South Dakota

[Hatchdog]

Safe travels on your home trip. Sure enjoyed reading your commentary.

[JEBar]

kind words appreciated .... yesterday we took a very nice, 2+ hour boat ride around Lake Poinsett .... later we drove back out there where we ate at a restaurant overlooking lake .... what is scheduled to be our last full day in South Dakota is going to be a busy one .... most of the big items that need to be taken care of have been taken care of .... a much longer list of smaller items remains .... add to that a steady flow of friends and relatives stopping by, its bound to take longer than usual .... we just heard on the news that seven days from now the activity in Atlantic hurricane season is supposed to increase .... that's about the time we are due to get back home ..

[brm4450]

Waved as we went by exit 150 Toronto Estelline

[JEBar]

wish you'd of been able to stop buy ..

[JEBar]

we its departure eve and are settled in for the evening .... its truly hard to believe that two months have passed so quickly .... we are certainly looking forward to getting back home to see the kids but not so pleased to be leaving Estelline .... we are pretty much down to our get up and get on the road routine ....

[JEBar]

we've had a good visit and great time in South Dakota but departure morning has arrived .. .. thankfully, the weather looks good for our first day's drive to Onawa, IA .... our hope is to hookup around 9AM, drive uptown where we will store $3,200 worth of South Dakota steaks, then head south to Volga, SD where we plan to take on sufficient fuel to get us east of Kansas City and then head south on I-29 .... no side trips or other planned stops .... the temp is predicted to be 83 with a 0% chance of rain ....

[brm4450]

I wished I had been able to stop the other day, I hope for you to have a great return trip home. Good travels and stay safe and healthy.
brm4450

[JEBar]

a week ago an inland storm with near hurricane force winds passed through Iowa, Cedar Rapids was just part of a large area that was really devastated .... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/derecho-st ... s-midwest/ .... right now we are camped in north west Iowa, just south of Sioux City and the corn crop seems to be coming along OK .... during today's drive we did see large center pivot irrigation systems in use .... a year ago some of those same fields were flooded .... the corn fields in eastern South Dakota actually looks better than those we see in Iowa .... with the large loss of Iowa corn, farmers in other parts of this part of the country may have a much better bottom line

today's drive took 3 hrs 49 min and covered 211.4 miles .... during our 9 weeks in Estelline we put 1,329 miles on our truck

[The Wiz]

Hope to see ya when you get home.

[JEBar]

AMEN .... we have some shooting to catch up on .... not to mention your knife that's in my truck ..