Driving Northwest to Oacoma, South Dakota

Eric & I leave Pender...

... & drive Nebraska Highway 16.

Nebraska has Cattle

& Soybeans

Welcome to

Laurel, Nebraska

At the intersection of

US Route 20 East &

Nebraska Highway 15 North...

We continue on NE 15 North.

Irrigating the fields

Eric & I leave Nebraska Highway 12

for US Route 81.

This Wide Lode Tractor Trailer

is using the road shoulder

as it travels south.

Welcome to Wyoming

Forever West

Welcome Center at Exit 199

Crossing the Missouri River...

... & entering Yankton.

The community prepares

for a parade.

I take the wheel for a while.

It's a slow drive behind this

piece of Farm Equipment.

(About 10 minutes at 30 to 35

miles per hour)

The projection on the left makes it hard for me to get a line of sight past the lumbering vehicle.  Finally, there's an opening on a long downhill stretch and I pass, at last.

Welcome to South Dakota

Great Faces  Great Places

We turn onto Interstate 90 West.

Stalk Up On Corny Souvenirs!

The World's Only Corn Palace

Exit 332

Eric & I detour to Mitchell

to see The World's Only

Corn Palace.

Hay Bales in the fields

Wind Turbines dominate

the Prairie.

South Dakota Tractor Museum

Early Prairie Living

Kimball 

Exit 284 Left 1 Block

End of the Trail

Al's OASIS

Exit 260

Restaurant Motel Campground

Eric & I stop in Kimball to

visit the South Dakota

Tractor Museum.

Our last stop is the Rest Stop

 between Exits 263 & 265.

 

The car is an early 1950s Coupe.

The Oacoma Water Tower

We arrive at our Exit.

Eric fuels up the motorhome

while I take pictures at the

Sinclair Gas Station.

This is the end of our trail...

Al's OASIS.

Eric & I are spending the night

surrounded by Tractor Trailers.