Over the last 3 days we have made some serious tracks Eastwards, leaving the Badlands on Friday morning and landing in Yankton, South Dakota for the evening. Notable features of that part of the trip were a significant lack of decent coffee and high octane gas. Our octane booster which had been carried in our saddlebags since leaving home was all used up in no time. Also, there were a lot of bugs and our windshields were a big mess when we pulled in for the evening.
Day 2 of this trek saw us continuing into Iowa and driving along route 20 for most of the day. Once again we could not find a decent coffee stop, there were lots of bug splats and a lack of high octane gas. We stopped in Cedar Falls, Iowa where we stayed last year. We really like this lovely town and finally had a decent Latte!! Also, a very good meal in one of the local Bistros and a sound sleep at the historic BlackHawk Inn one of the oldest continuously operating hotels in the country.
Day 3, we finally got out of Iowa and left the bugs bugs behind. We rode alongside the mighty Mississippi River along the Great River Road, which we really enjoyed and even found a lovely coffee shop for our 11:00 Latte! We then took our lives in our hands and rode the interstates around Chicago. Not an experience to be repeated and this was on a Sunday. I cannot imagine what it would be like on a week day. We made it across the entire state of Illinois and are now in Chesterton, Indiana for the night.
Total mileage for these 3 days is 924 after traveling in 4 States; South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
This photo of a small flower in the Badlands desert reminds me what determination can accomplish.
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