One thing I like about driving through North and South Dakota is the sunflower fields. This time of year the petals have fallen off and the seeds are waiting to be harvested.
We stopped for the night at Cabela's in Mitchell, South Dakota. They offer free parking and there is a dump station and potable water.The next morning we did some rest area geocaching as we drove toward our destination.
We found a geocache at the Minnesota welcome station
--only it was so far west in the rest area that is counted as a cache in South Dakota!
Our next stop was Le Mars, Iowa--ice cream capital of the world. Only there was no parking for rvs at the museum. We kept going and I fired off an e-mail to Blue Bunny headquarters letting them know how disappointed we were. Their answer was laughable--there was parking for an rv as long as it wasn't a big one! Let me just say that an rv of more than 25 feet would not be able to get in let alone maneuver in the parking lot!We kept going until we reached Lewis and Clark State Park in Onowa, Iowa. We found a great waterfront site.
Once again there was a beautiful sunset.
The visitor center is under construction and the keel boat is out of water until next season.
As we walked along the park road looking for geocaches we came upon these turkeys.
The next afternoon we continued our drive to Norwalk. Not far from Des Moines we stopped at a rest area for another earth cache.
We arrived at our campground--Walnut Woods State Park--a day earlier than expected. We called Ed and Doreen and made plans to eat dinner with them the following evening. We spent the next day exploring Madison County, Iowa.
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