SoDak

The parentals and I left MN Friday morning for the drive out to Pierre, SD.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with SD geography, Pierre is in the exact middle.  The middle of nowhere to be precise.  The winds were pretty strong on the first half of the trip and Mother had a death-grip on the steering wheel the entire way. 

In Vermont, there's state legislation barring the construction of billboards.  If SD had such a law, there would be absolutely nothing to do on I90.  We counted 24 billboards for Wall Drug between Mitchell and the turn to Pierre alone.  But the best billboard of the day comes from the American Taxidermy Association advertising their new exhibit with the tag line, "See Nature in Action!"  Because when I think of nature in action, I think of dead animals in static postures.  

And SD is flat.  In VT, the mountains block any sort of stretching vistas, but here, you can see for miles.  And for all the joking and complaining I will do in the next couple of months, SD is actually beautiful.  The hills look sort of like sunken mountains and the lack of development is actually nice to look at (although it will become the bane of my existence in about 4 days). 

Now I'm just biding my time until the internship officially starts on Monday.  But at least I have Twins baseball to entertain me.  Now if only they weren't losing to the Brewers.  C'mon dudes.