The Great Road Trip of 2017......Part Twenty Eight/Day Twenty

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So spent the night in Pierre SD.

A yummy breakfast there-oatmeal, yogurt and bacon.

Sluggy looking bright and bushytailed in the morning?

Here is the room towel I used after I showered that morning.  Notice the thread bareness of that towel.  It was a disgrace to still have a towel in this condition in use rotation.

A little friend on the hood of the car when we went to leave.  Looking it up now it was a mayfly.  He/she was probably feeding off the raindrops on the car.

After gassing up(and I found some vape juices for my 2 kids who used vapes then on sale in that convenience store)we hit the road North to North Dakota.

Since it was early, near sunrise we saw this glowing sky as we left.  Notice the white layer in the sky closest to the ground?  I couldn't tell if it was fog burning off or smoke from wildfires.

Driving further along and it became clear that the glow and haze was caused by wildfires in the area.

Trying to find a radio station on the car radio and everything up here was Country Music.

Gee, I thought I was in the South driving out here. lol

Passing an old storefront of some kind out on the Plains north of Miller SD./

A lone tree out in a field.

Yet another field of Sunflowers......

Saw this water tower soon after..........

Signs heading back to Miller and toward other places.

Ahhhh....Now I get why all these fields of Sunflowers around here.  There is a sunflower receiving station nearby.

TThen we went through the little town of Redfield, South Dakota.

Lots of road construction in town.  I guess, given the Winters here all this road work needs to be done in the Summer.

The Redfield water tower.  Notice a piece of a pheasant painted on the left side of it.

We stopped at a gas/convenience store in Redfield and I found more of those Snicker bars with funny stuff on the wrappers......

This one is dedicated to Kim *snicker*

Some alcoholic libations.....peach ale.  Didn't sound very good at least to me.

They had a local message board in the store and we could have bought a purebred puppy by calling a number posted but we didn't.

I did see these interesting bandana/scarves that said, "Big Cock Country" on them.....I think the local high school sports teams are the fighting cocks.  At least I hope so! lolz

Spotted in town was this huge pheasant up on a pedestal, with lights for night illumination along side an American flag.  Redfield bills itself as the "Pheasant Capital of the Worrld" so yeah, it's fitting.

We bypassed all these towns on the sign ahead, moving to the East and then North again, hopscotching our way to North Dakota.

Passed by a field of identical red, rag top old American cars.  Sort of like the "Cadillac Range" down in Amarillo Texas, it looked like a public art installation........

Not long after passing that we saw the "Clark Ringtail Lodging" facility.  I guess folks out here go on Pheasant hunts as a regular thing and hunters stay in group lodgings like this one.

Nearby was the Clark County WWI war memorial.

We passed by a medium sized lake.....

Then hit the town of Henry SD, population 268 back in 2017.

Passed by a farming operation with a tractor on a short billboard advertising some companies farming equipment nearby.

The "big" intersection of Rte. 20 and 212 in Watertown SD.  Silos for days.........

We stopped in Watertown at a liquor store as Hubs likes to peruse regional selections in parts of the country we don't get to go to often and this was our first time in South Dakota

I found half a shelf of Boone's Farm(Sonya's go-to drink)here.

But "Mommy's Time Out" wine made me chuckle. Notice it's sitting next to a selection called, "Mad Housewife" too.  I like a good funny name on an alcoholic beverage. 8-)

And it was no surprise this liquor store had wines labeled Wild Bill and Calamity Jane either.

Along with Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota Rooster Rush and Sturgis branded wines.

Back in the car and 2 hours until our destination for the evening in North Dakota.

More signs about closed interstates in case we forgot about the horrid Winter storms in this part of the country.

And we finally hit North Dakota mid afternoon.

More later on our adventures in ND.

Sluggy