A Night on 90 West

We headed out of Chicago around 8pm intending to drive as far as we could towards South Dakota. We knew the first two legs of the trip would be grueling so best to just dig in and get it overwith. We enjoyed a beautiful sunset on our way out of the city.

After dark we crossed into Wisconsin: the land of cheese and fireworks! We stopped around midnight to get a little shuteye at a rest area, but around 1:30 we noticed a man in the window of the store staring into our car for over 15 minutes. That was enough to put the car in gear and high tail it out of there!

I drove through the night while Rachael slept. The land was so flat I could see 4 different thunder storms rolling in. Each with different colored lightning and bolts splintering across the sky. 

We switched around 6am and it was my turn to rest while Rachael drove us into South Dakota!

South Dakota is the KING of roadside attractions and gimmicks. And we loved it. We stuck a Cape Cod pin in more than one gas station map:

And we felt like royalty at the Corn Palace:

The road was long but the prairie was so uniquely beautiful.