Sep 2, 2012 - Yankton

Last night's dinner was wonderful. Jerry and I both ordered Walleye which is a very good tasting fish. We ate at a restaurant perched on top of a hill overlooking the Missouri River. The salad and warm bread were very good as was the rest of the dinner. We were happy with our choice of Murdo's, only about a 10 minute drive from our campground. Today we went to downtown Yankton and walked the Meridian Bridge over and back across the Missouri River as it flows south toward Omaha and St. Louis where it joins the Mississippi. Holly went with...

Sep 1, 2012 - Camping in Nebraska

We drove 325 miles yesterday from one end of South Dakota to the other. Once we crossed the Missouri River, it became much greener and there was more corn in the fields. Some of it is already harvested. A lot of it in the fields is stunted. We are camped in a recreation area that was created when a dam was built on the Missouri River. There are many campgrounds around here. Some are operated by the State of South Dakota. We are on the south side of the river and so we are in Nebraska. Our campground is operated by the Army Corps of...

Jul 27, 2010 - Yankton, South Dakota

We drove up to Yankton today with plans and reservations to stay eight nights. We stayed three nights on the SD side at Midway Campground and then we moved to the NE side of the river to Tail Waters. The campgrounds both were very roomy, shaded and close to the river. The accommodations were electric only, we had a place to fill with fresh water and a dump station. The shower houses were very nice and clean. Lori and Dave were there the first five days,they have their own travel and we were parked next to each other for the first three...

Jun 16, 2010 - Wow! What a Museum!

We are staying in a beautiful recreational area that is very popular for camping and outdoor activities. Who could imagine that a world class museum, just 30 minutes away in Vermillion, SD, a town of 9,765, would give us one of the very best museum experiences of this trip. The museum is the National Music Museum, founded in 1973. It is operated by the University of South Dakota and is on the campus of the university. There are more than 13,500 instruments in the collection and they span five centuries. Admission is free but a donation of...

Jun 15, 2010 - Relaxing by Lake Yankton

Right now we are camped at the perfect campground. It is owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. Our site is right on Lake Yankton which was created when a dam was built on the Missouri River in the 50s. The temperature outside is about 70 degrees and it is partly cloudy. People go by once in awhile in small boats like canoes, kayaks or bass boats. There are lots of trees and we face south. The sunlight streams through the trees as the sun sets. The word I would use for the feeling that I get here is serene. This morning we went...

Sep 22, 2009 - Yankton, SD

It is cloudy this morning with misty rain, cold and the wind is blowing, but not as hard as yesterday. We went to the Visitor’s Center and looked around. At this COE Recreation Area is Gavin’s Point Dam and Power Center where they provide electricity to 30,000 customers. We drove across the dam to Capt. Norms and purchased a Nebraska fishing license. We can fish both in Nebraska and South Dakota with this license. A one day license cost $9.50 per person. We tried fishing off a fishing pier near our camper with Bo catching 2 and I caught 2...

Sep 21, 2009 - Travel Day

We got up this morning and it was raining, in fact it rained most of the night. We were going to take Hwy 81 all the way to Yankton, but since it was raining we decided to take I-29. We stopped at Flying J along the way, got diesel, filled our propane tank and ate. We then exited at 59 and took Hwy 18 to Hwy 81 south to Yankton. After crossing the Missouri River we took Hwy 121 to the campground which we now know is really in Nebraska, not South Dakota. We are staying at Tailwaters campground a Corp of Engineers Park. The camp sites are...

Sep 3, 2009 - Badlands of South Dakota

Traveled through South Dakota to see the Badlands. Stopped along the way out of South Dakota to see Wall Drug and got our nickle cup of coffee. There actually was a small drug store in one of the many buildings filled with souvenirs. Then traveled on to Mitchell to see the Corn Palace where we ate dinner of sloppy joe, hot dog and ear of corn. It serves as a community center and the local college basketball team was practicing. We just missed the week long corn harvest festival. The corn murals on the outside are changed every year and has...

Jun 7, 2005 - Minnesota and South Dakota

On the road again (yes, and it was before 8:00 AM!!) Saw a lot of tractors (like BIG tractors.....Mike Mulligan type tractors), lots of farms, new and old, old ones. We have only been traveling on the back roads and have been seeing what we would have missed had we been traveling on the interstate. We went through Walnut Grove, birth place of Laura Ingalls Wilder (and location of her book "Little House on Plum Creek", and there is a Plum Creek!). We also went through Pipestone, MN. God knows what is at Pipestone National Monument, we drove...