Another 500+ mile driving day with a few tourist attractions along the way.
First off was Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota. We had seen advertisements for this for hundreds of mile so we just had to see what it was! It was basically a mall with a bit of a twist as it had a lot of stuff you wouldn't normally see such as a rock store (geological rocks, not rock and roll) and a lot of Indian type gifts and jewelry and apparently 5c coffee which we didn't get. We didn't stay too long as we had a long drive ahead.
Next was a Sioux Indian museum in Chamberlain, South Dakota. When you see displays like this along with the story it makes you sad to see what the US did to the native Americans. This was really close to Wounded Knee, a major slaughter of native American Indians. Sad.
One other site we had to see before we left South Dakota was the Corn Palace...another site that had billboard advertisements for many miles in both directions. The food was very similar to a county fair...lots of fried foods (Oreos, etc) and, of course, CORN! We stayed a while and bought some of this fried food and a couple ears of corn.
Back on the road and just about straight through to Omaha and the StormChasers baseball game. This was the 8th game of this year's road trip. The StormChasers are a AAA team in the Pacific Coast League and are the AAA affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. We didn't get there until the 5th inning. Too late of a start and too many stops along the way, much needed stops though. When we got to our seats we met a couple of Dodger fans that are from Paramount, California and are visiting a couple baseball fields while on vacation. They will be at the same games at us the next 2 days...Royals and then Cardinals. They gave the kids 2 baseballs from the game and the Wobbly Head giveaway that we were too late for. How cool is that! They were part of the on field games in the 8th inning, so I took a bunch of pics for them on their camera. I love the people you meet on these types of vacations.
Well, it's off to bed now.
Goodnight.
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