Sioux Falls SD to Des Moines IA
Arising early, we break camp just outside of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. For breakfast, we visit Falls Park in mid-city Sioux Falls, a wonderful small city. Then we drive on into Iowa to Sioux City for lunch, then south along extreme western Iowa to Onawa and beyond.
Via Onawa (birthplace; population 2700), Turin (junior high), and Castana (elementary and freshman high). We meet Paul Benjamin, Onawa street person; Brett Spaulding, Onawa tractor-truck-car dealer and Internet entrepreneur; and a boomer biker couple from Omaha returning from their Sturgis SD (site of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally every August) test run with a new bike. Visits to the site of the grand-paternal farm in Turin which was acquired by the State as a wildlife and habitat preserve and Loess Hill geologic site. We check out the Onawa Public Library, Lawrence’s favorite haunt as a child on Saturday shopping days to read material not available at home.
Finally, Nik drives us into Des Moines.
Photos are available but captions and narrative will have to wait; too much to do, too little time. Will probably transfer all to Flikr or Picasa, as it is getting out of control with 1,047 photos so far.
