A few general travel comments before I get to the events of the day. After days of flat, flat, flat countryside, it was good to see some gently rolling hills in eastern Nebraska. Now in South Dakota we are back to flat. However, to add some visual interest, many of the road surfaces are pink. According to Dale, my road building expert, the asphalt is overlaid with a gravel containing a large amount of pink Quartz and eureka, pink roads.

We made a short stop at the Dakota territorial museum in Yankton. They had some interesting stuff including two old bibles printed in the 1600s. They were about eight inches thick. There were also some old prairie buildings furnished with antiques from the appropriate era. The one room schoolhouse was especially interesting as it was still in use in the 1960.

After lunch it was on to the corn palace, a large arena decorated with murals made completely of corn and other grains. The murals are changed each year to reflect a specific theme. This year's theme seems to be South Dakota history.

Then it was on to the prehistoric Indian village, absolutely fascinating. This is an active archeological dig of a 10,000 year old Indian village. You can actually walk on a catwalk over the dig area and see the progress. If it wasn't a holiday, we could have watched the workers scraping away. They also had constructed a accurate replica of the original lodge right down to the mud daub walls. We really enjoyed this stop. FYI, if anyone wants to try and make pemmican, the first ingredient is a fresh bison leg bone. Once you find one let me know and I'll come help with the rest of the process.

Tonight we are camped right on the shore of the Missouri River, very pretty. Tomorrow it's on to the Badlands. I hope it is as interesting as today was.