Minnesota (almost SD) May 8 & 9

Almost got to South Dakota but stooped just east of Sioux Falls at Blue Mounds State Park.  Nothing special about this stop except the park has its own buffalo herd.  

We got a glimpse of the buffalo but not too close.  We drove across cropland, the breadbasket of America.  Pretty boring, nothing planted yet just empty fields.  We need a shopping, laundry stop and this was it.  Camping might be primitive in the Badlands so we wanted to be clean, showered with clean clothes and enough food before that adventure. Went to see the National Wildlife Refuge Tall Grass Praire unit.  Thanks to our Kansas visit and tutledge by the Vernon's we were in the know here.  We did get the bikes out and take a nice bike trail around this park, but mostly R &R.  Weather finally nice, sunny and in the 80s.