Jul 26, 2012 - Red Barn RV Park, Tea, South Dakota

Tea is about 4 miles from Sioux Falls, nice shady RV Park. Reggi found a meat market, Lee's Meats, a local Meat processing plant, the wildlife, fish and birds in their store well all bagged by them. Reggi also found a Red Tailed Hawk sitting on a tree outside, she got some wonderful shots of the Hawk

Aug 1, 2011 - July 29, 2011 Day 56 South Dakota

We’re off at 9:25AM. It is a bright sunny day-80 degrees already! We get on I-90 but Jan quickly realizes that we should have taken Hwy 240 to the Badlands. We turn around and exit on Hwy 240 after stopping for gas. We are still in the grasslands and we see lots of hay and an occasional pond. At 10:00AM, we arrive at Badlands National Park. We get in free with the America the Beautiful pass. The topography is stunning. We stop several times and take pictures. We see big horn sheep and they cross the road in front of us. We see lots of...

Jul 14, 2011 - July 13, Fourth Stop

It rained last night, so the temps were much cooler. Still lots of humidity. On I 29 through Iowa, the Missouri River is close to the Interstate. We had to make 2 detours off I 29 because the road was flooded. 70 extra miles below the Council Bluffs area and then above it. The little Iowa roads were really bumpy and rough. We did not get to our stop at the Red Barn RV Park in Tea, SD until 6:00pm. Lots of sections of I 29 were single lane due to construction and rough. We had to go under 50 mph a lot of the time. Some rain while we were...

Jul 4, 2011 - Day 11-Leaving Hart Ranch for Red Barn RV Campground

We left Hart Ranch around 9:20 a.m. after breaking camp and filling the motor home with gas at the Ranch station. Not much to report about the trip except that it was windy most of the way. Certainly adds interest to the trip maintaining control with continuous cross winds and occasional strong gusts. Always grateful for the blessing of safe arrival. At one point on this leg of the trip, I pointed out to Suzi what looked like a large lake. Roadside signs referred to Cedar Cove (or something like that)boat access, etc. Finally, we saw that...

Sep 23, 2009 - Moving Eastward

We started our day out with breakfast at Wall Drug in the Western Art Gallery Cafe. Breakfast was better than the bison burger and fries we had yesterday. And, of course, we each had a few cups of 5 cent coffee. Since we had to rush so much yesterday, we took a few minutes to shop around. I found a couple things that might find their way into Christmas stockings. Wall Drug is the ultimate in tourist attraction with its block long group of stores offering every conceivable tourist trinket and a wide variety of T-shirts. It is not the kind...

Jun 22, 2009 - Fifth Day

We left St. Joseph, MO and headed up I 29 toward South Dakota. We went through Iowa which was pretty flat with lots of farm land. Going through Sioux City, IO, we went right by the Missouri River again, but did not cross it. South Dakota is even more flat with nothing but huge farms with feed corn and soybeans. We are staying at the Red Barn RV Park in Tea, SD. at Exit 73 on I 29. Tomorrow we head for Cassleton, ND on I 94 for two nights. There is an indoor water park, so the kids will like it.

Oct 14, 2008 - TEA, South Dakota

Left Nebraska this morning and are now at a campground in Tea, SD. Look it up. Nice campground and cheap $24.Tomorrow we will be in Minnesota to see our friends the Sportl's & Glasser's. Took Chica out for her nightly stroll and ran into the camp owner's pet. A raccoon that they saved and is now six months old. Hope you noticed he was using a pet leash like Chica's. At least he was in style, but Chica wasn't impressed.Oh Yeah ! With all the changes in our route we have driven in RV/rental car 10,0061 miles or 16,191.6 kilometer's and we're...

Jul 1, 2007 - Tea, South Dakota

We drove 337 miles to the little town of Tea, SD today. Tea is a small town on the south side of Sioux Falls. We are just going to overnight here, then on to the Badlnds tomorrow for two nights. We are having to push on because we have an appointment to get the steps worked on in Billings, Mt on Friday the 6th. We will be able to stay there for a couple days. I was really satisfied with the performance of the front suspension on today's trip. It was well worth it. We hit a couple of stretches of expansion joint bumpy roads that previously...

May 20, 2007 - Headed East XI

We went to church, had lunch with one of Ron's high school friends, visited with elderly cousin at the nursing home and moved to Tea, SD, all by 4 pm. Then we went over to Ron's cousins, Wes and Elaine's house for a great time. Wes stood up for Ron at our wedding and is probably the closest thing to a big brother he has. Elaine is a wonderful person and so much fun to be around. We love going to their house and alway try to make it for at least one time per visit. We went out to Chili's for dinner and Ron and I shared an order of ribs....