Usually I am stuck for titles but today I have two!
The second refers to last nights weather; we had storms throughout the night with some good lightning shows, but it appears that these storms intensified as they headed east resulting in three tornadoes touching down in Sioux City Falls SD causing a lot of damage. We had driven past Sioux City just a few hours earlier.
We had planned to visit a sculpture after dinner as it was lit up at night and was meant to be worth a trip. That plan was scuttled for a couple of reasons, one being the weather and the other being the “large” beer we ordered at the restaurant. Normally (to me at least) a large beer is a pint and a small beer somewhat less than a pint. Here is Lyn dealing with the large beer.
After breakfast, we headed up to the sculpture. The sculpture is called “Dignity” and is of a Native Indian lady with a quilt on her back, it is 50ft tall and was built to commemorate South Dakotas Native heritage.
“Destiny”
From the other side. 
View of the Mississippi from the statue.
Next stop on the list was back into Chamberlain as there just happened to be a quilt store there!
The Quilt Shop Chamberlain SDAt least it had a small man cave there!
Interesting, since we left Chamberlain (and the Quilt store) the credit card has been randomly declined. Hopefully it has been sorted after a call to MasterCard.
Our next stop was The Badlands, about 100 miles west. Again it was Interstate and pretty straight and flat for long stretches. We also crossed into another time zone, Mountain, hence the first part of the title. I feel jet lag coming on.
I-90 Badlands is a National Park, so our annual pass got its first use. National Parks charge around $25 – $35 entrance fee so the annual pass at $80 should be a good purchase.
As in previous blogs I will provide a link that describes an area we have visited rather than type it all in, after all I am on vacation! So info is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands
A collection of pictures:
No KiddingAs usual photos don’t do the views justice, particularly as it was an overcast day. We drove around this area for some time before heading a few miles north to the town of Wall. We had been seeing sign posts for various activities relating to “Wall Drug”, for a couple of hundred miles. Back in the ’30’s a drug store was opened in the town of Wall, but they weren’t getting many customers so they advertised free iced water, and the crowds started to arrive. The “Drug Store” now occupies 1 city block and consists of many stores based on a Western town of the late 1800’s. It’s interesting in a tourist trap kind of way, but at least their coffee is only 5c a cup!
The rain started as we headed off to the hotel, and as I am writing this there is torrential rain and thunder outside, but it seems the twisters have taken a break for now.