Happy Mothers' Day

Sunday  (Mothers' Day) started with calls from our boys. Living "on the road" really impacts how you celebrate holidays. Instead of enjoying the traditional Mothers' Day brunch, we took off after a hearty breakfast of coffee and granola bars. Today we'd share a nice light lunch and a special dinner. 

Our first destination was the "Badlands" of South Dakota. 244,000 acres of severely eroded volcanic clay that separate the high plains from the low. Imagine several hundred square miles of drippy sand castles. This area is a "grand canyon" of clay, about 500,000 years old. Like the Painted Desert, the Badlands change every time it rains. They lose about an inch of material a year. In another half million years, about when the Crazy Horse Monument is finished, they'll be gone. The Visitor's Center offered lunch: Mothers' Day special buffet featuring Prime Rib. No thanks.

The rest of South Dakota is pretty flat. We had noticed that Wyoming was greener than Utah. The Sage Brush slowly replaced by patches of grass. In SD the grass seems to take over. I'm reminded of how Eskimos have different names for different kinds of snow. When all you see is miles of nothing, you begin to notice different kinds of nothing. South Dakota  is a lot of nothing.

We purposely skipped Wall Drug. 100 miles of hype is more than we can bear. We did stop for a late lunch to find that we had crossed into the Central Time Zone - lost an hour and were just in time for an early dinner. The Mothers' Day Special was Prime Rib. No thanks.

Just like in Kentucky, three weeks ago, it was hard to find anything open on a Sunday night. By the time we got to Sioux Falls, our choices were burgers or pizza. We could walk to the pizza place and they served adult beverages. Luckily for Cheryl, Mothers' Day will happen again next year.

Today we saw 1 mid-year Corvette and drove 438.7 miles