Sunrise beside church in Miller, SD
Sunrise beside church in Miller, SD
Crop dusting business means farming country.
Train passing in the early morning.
Some signs along the road have the speeds in mph and km/hr.
Last Modified on 8/17/98 at 16:31:40
Day's Narrative: I ate a Smiley's Restaurant at 6:20 this morning -- arriving while it was just barely light enough to be seen on the bicycle. As I left the sun was coming up beside the Church (Photo 1). Later I passed a crop dusting business (Photo 2), and met a train just visible in the morning light (Photo 3). A crop dusting business is a sure sign of farming country. Several of the towns along the way (which had no stores, by the way) had signs giving the speed limit in mpg and in km/hr (Photo 4). Already bicycles are totally metric, we buy soft drinks in liter bottles and probably 80% of the automobiles are metric. I have long suspected that the US government has no plans to switch the country to the metric system until the populace rises up and demands it to end the confusion. There was hardly any wind so I made good time to the first store at Wolsey, 30 miles down the road. I tried to get the store keeper interested in conversation by remarking that I wondered what he thought Clinton would say to the grand jury today. He answered only, "As little as possible." Well, so much for getting a conversation going. I arrived at Huron, our stop for the night at 10:00 am, and found the motel by 10:15 -- beating Connie here. After I registered, Connie drove up as I walked out the door. They had a room already made up from the previous night, so we were able to go directly to our room. Tomorrow we will stay in Huron and ride the tandem around the area. Then on Wednesday we will go to Brookings, where we will again spend a second day to explore on the tandem and ride out to the Minnesota state line. We haven't decided yet what we will do on Friday -- probably start driving back to New Mexico. © Ray & Connie Poore, 1998
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