TonightI right from Mitchell, SD, home to the world's only Corn Palace.

The ride in yesterday was pretty nice.  The wind finally died down so not riding into a headwind felt amazing.  The ride had some beautiful parts too.  We were on one road for probably 40 miles and saw maybe 4 cars.  plenty of nice rolling hills.  I don't even know what we call this part of the country.  A little nicer than the midwest, but not quite the great plains??  maybe its just the great plains, I don't know.  You could probably look it up on wikipedia.

Last night was probably the most entertaining night of the trip.  After hitting up the corn palace, we went to the bar down the street, Jackpots.  It was a combination bar/casino/western museum with a basketball court and a volleyball court.  It was kareoke night and a bunch of us really stepped it up a notch.  We pretty much took the place over.  I did some Bob Seger- Old time rock n roll, my kareoke go-to and later did some ac/dc... There were a few other times where we all ended up on stage, not always wearing shirts.  We pretty much dominated the place. Word also got out what we were doing and why we were in town and the dj took up a collection for us.  People in the bar loved us enough to put together $107- and there were not a lot of people in this bar at all. 

On the walk home, we were picked up by a local, rich, who we had meant at the bar earlier.  He gave us a ride back to our stayover in the back up his pickup truck and offered to come grill some food for us today... sweet dude.

gotta take advantage of the rest days.  Or as Clinton put it today, the night before therest days.

Waking up this morning was not easy, but I managed to get in a good run in before we had a visit at the cancer clinic here in Mitchell.

This afternoon I took care of some things- laundry, food, haircut.  Then Rich grilled some meat for us at the church... He's from Wyoming so he gave us some pretty good insight as to what lies ahead.... I'm pumped, but  I'm also feelin pretty bloated and tired... good night