We had elected to stay in Mitchell, SD so that we could see the Corn Palace that we had heard so much about. It certainly is like nothing we'd ever seen before. We watched the video explaining how it came to be and saw photos through the years as it has evolved. What a clever way to entice folks into visiting your community! Then it was back "on the road again" heading from there into Iowa-lots more cornfields-and more cornfields in various stages of maturity. We crossed the muddy Mississippi at Rock Island and then headed toward Chicago-figuring that on a Sunday the traffic wouldn't be too awful. Except for a few macho (or at least they thought they were) young men on motorcycles doing wheelies down the highway at over 70 miles an hour and NO helmets-guess they think they are invincible! Didn't see any crashes, but maybe that's because my eyes were closed. Then it was on into Indiana for just a few minutes before we hit the Michigan state line where we stopped to locate a campground as we were exhausted!
The only thing unusual that we saw along the way today was another huge wind farm with hundreds of gigantic windmills-not quite sure what they were gathering energy for, but they were all turning so obviously there was something...
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