Interior, SD -- Sioux Falls, SD, July 3

Final drive through The Badlands before heading east across the prairies. Stopped at The Corn Palace, an interesting and somewhat iconic place. It's used for sports and concerts, but it's the murals that are interesting. The outside ones are redesigned each year around a different theme and redone using 12 naturally occurring colors of corn, plus other grains and native grasses. Each year of corn is cut and stapled to the board individually. The new ones for this year haven't been done yet, so the picture is one of last year's.

Then made out way to Sioux Falls, with enough time for museum visit. The Old Courthouse Museum didn't quite measure up--I guess we're spoiled by having seen so many excellent museums, small and large.

Falls Park was interesting. First visited a small museum where we learned that the big stockyards don't exist anymore. The farmers sell their animals directly to the meat processors, eliminating the extra step of sending the animals to a stockyard to be sorted and sold. Eliminates some middlemen, too, so hopefully the farmer gets a better price. Also interesting, seeing the falls that gives Sioux Falls it's name. 

We're now in the Central Time zone!


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