Up One Side and Down the Other
We drove north today to South Dakota’s capital City, Pierre. It is pronounced ‘Peer’…only the Americans
can pronounce a clearly French word in such a manner. Pierre has a population of only 14,000. It is the 2nd smallest US State
Capital. There is also nothing
there. If you wanted to tour their
capital buildings, you had to give them 48 hours notice…not sure what that was
about. Didn’t matter, we probably would
not have anyway!
What we did get to do today though, was drive up one side of
the ‘Mighty Mo’ (The Missouri River) and down the other. The river is a big one. In places it is 2 miles wide. It has a large water shed and this is the
river that caused a lot of the flooding problems in the late Spring and early
Summer. It is still running far higher
than usual for this time of year. It dumps
into the Mississippi. We can only
imagine how bad things must have gotten down in Louisiana after we left there…the
river was already pushing the limits of its levees when we were there.
Tomorrow we will move on east to Sioux Falls. Our stay in Kennebec turned out to be not
quite as quiet as it appeared it would be.
A whole bunch of Motorcycles arrived last evening. We are now seeing them as they are returning from
the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Amazing!
Distance Traveled = 275 km.
Wildlife Sightings = Eastern Kingbird, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Hawk,
Mourning Dove, Eurasian-collared Dove, Coot, Mallard, Pied-billed Grebe,
Shoveller, White-faced Ibis, Great Egret, Great-blue Heron, Meadowlark, Killdeer,
Black-tailed Prairie Dogs.
The 'Mighty Mo'
Sunflowers by the hundreds of acres
Historic Downtown Pierre
Im so jelous. You are doing one of my bucket list trips. Touring alll these NPs.
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You guys would love everything that we have saw and done. The National Parks are simply put, unbelievable. Knowing the way you guys are, it is only a matter of time.
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