We are in Deadwood, SD, at the Hampton Inn - Four Aces Casino. Today was our longest planned drive and Jim is totally exhausted - unconscious on his bed. I am worried that he is sick - an old insidious infection that was not cured by a recent course of Cipro. He re-started the Cipro this afternoon but now he needs to wake up to take tonight's dose. Tomorrow's drive through Montana promises to be almost as long as today's journey. Maybe I need to re-evaluate our schedule. We need to be in Seattle on Friday to meet Ernie. The ship leaves on Saturday, whether we are on board or not.
We have now traveled about 1,700 miles in three days - more than halfway across the country.
After yesterday's weather excitement, today's drive was very uneventful. We started the day with the Hampton Inn breakfast. Boring but very adequate. Plus it allowed us to get away at a relatively early hour - ten o'clock. We blasted across the full-width of Minnesota and stopped for a bite of lunch beside a cornfield in eastern South Dakota. The afternoon was spent driving fast across the prairie and through the badlands to the Black Hills of Dakota. Around 4 o'clock a low-flying duck slammed into our windshield. Ouch. The car survived.
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