Not much adventure today but an awful lot of driving! Omaha to Custer, South Dakota is a long drive, over 9 hours.
I never realized the size of Omaha but it's a fairly large city, situated on the border with Iowa. Leaving out of there and heading northwest, we first got to see an abundance of corn. At this time of year, it's all very short but it's everywhere! The rolling hills of the central part of the state is nothing but corn and the industries that support its growth.
The rolling hills give way to the flatland, flat as far as the eye can see. The road is straight, interrupted every 20 to thirty miles with a small town, centered around the grain silos with the business district away from the main road. One small town’s sign directs one to the business district which is down a gravel road!
Next comes the higher hills in cattle country. You can drive dozens of miles between houses with the pasture land lining the road on both sides, ranging to the horizon. Beautiful grassland!
The last part of Nebraska has the hill tops flattened, forming the buttes. This terrain continues and gets even higher as we got into South Dakota. This is also cattle country.
We are now at Custer State Park, just south of Rapid City. This is a beautiful park, at least the little we've seen so far, with lots of wildlife.
The only wildlife we've gotten to experience so far was in the restaurant where we had an appetizer of sausage made from rabbit and rattlesnake! It was a very good sausage although I'm not sure I could have told the difference between it and a Polish sausage in a blind taste test! My main course was bison tenderloin while Mary enjoyed walleye. Maybe we’ll see more tomorrow!
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