After a comfortable… and spacious… night in a hotel with a long hot shower, we started off to a cloudless day. We stopped at the local Fareway for fresh fruit and vegetables. Travelling north and west through Iowa presented more wind farms. A continuous landscape of them. Midamerica energy has pledged 30% renewable energy sources.
We are all used to seeing these now but the sheer numbers of these silent icons would send Don Quixote into apoplexy. The road side park just outside of Desmoines featured a wind vane and windmill picnic shelters.
We have a shorter drive today so we decided to get off the interstate and do some wandering.
Thurston County, Nebraska
In interpretation centre at the lookout described the ‘Omaha people’ and their culture and beliefs.. native Americans who settled here and were instrumental in assisting the Lewis and Clarke expedition along with producing other important and influential people in their culture, doctors, educators, anthropogists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_people
Lunch in Jackson, Nebraska.. egg salad sandwiches with boiled eggs from the hotel breakfast bar, the last of my homemade bread from home,cucumbers, tomatoes, potato chips.. not bad. It’s hot but not humid.
We crossed the Missouri R. 4 times today .. from Iowa to Nebraska then back and forth between Nebraska to South Dakota. Our campsite in Yankton SD is right on the river.
It is hot and windy so I took advantage of it to do some hand laundry and air out the bedding.
Gorgeous recreational area.
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