You have a set of tactics until you change them. Our idea was to stay close to Interstate 90 but yesterday we fell in love with that neglected and overlooked ole road 44 which runs west to east here in the southern part of South Dakota.
The landscape changed from “Badlands” to more agricultural. Fields of corn, blooming sunflower and milo (sorghum). We were hit by a little photo fatigue today. The landscape is very monotonous and twhat we thought would be cruising without a lot of disturbance ended up being 130 miles with a much uphill (>1500 m total ascent) and much downhill. Which is not the same as if the undulations had been evened out.
Little River, Adrian and time zones
When we rather seamlessly crossed the border between Jackson and Mellette County we also drove into the central time zone and lost an hour. We had our lunch in Little River and thought about the native American, Adrian, whom we had bought an ice-cream in Rapid City yesterday. He told us that we were destined to come through his home town Little River on our way to Interior. Maybe he did not know what he was talking about, since Little River was 80 miles on the other side of Interior or maybe it was just his pathfinding and spiritual skills that told him that we would somehow end up in Little River. I was not sure, if mentioning Adrian’s name in Little River would give us some cheap points or if we would get kicked out of town, so I dared only mention his name a couple of times when we had our Indian Taco. Let us not hope that Adrian thinks he is missed severely back home in Little River – at least nobody I spoke with showed any sign of recognition, though Little River is a town of less than 100 souls.
Tonight we stay in Winner
Apart from being the world capital for pheasants (every town is the world’s something around here) and the birth town of Frank Leahy a football coach who made it outside the county there is not much to report unless we decide to stay and do some real original investigations ourselves, which I hope we will not. We’d rather get on our bicycles tomorrow and find what we expect to be our last town in South Dakota to visit.
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Hej Anders, fantastisk tour du har orkestreret, god ide at lokke Troels med 😊 I er virkelig for seje! Bravehearts – det har vi vist ikke et godt dansk ord for – tænker jeg om at realisere sådan en drøm og gennemføre den 👍 Det er spændende læsning at følge dine dagsrapporter, det er næsten som at være der selv; de burde blive til en bog bagefter, virkelig! Dels måske som en cykel-guide Crossing USA’ – dels/hellere som dannelses-rejse med refleksioner over livet. Den kan først skrives bagefter 😊 Kh Niels Jørgen 🇩🇰
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Glad to see an old Social Democratic view in practice – Man har et standpunkt til man tager et nyt!
Peter
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