Iowa Scenic Byway side trip and into South Dakota

Iowa Scenic Byway

Pisgah, Iowa

Hello from South Dakota!  We arrived this afternoon but took a very scenic drive, part of the way, on an Iowa Scenic Byway to get here.  It was nice to get off of the highway and drive through the country. We even came across a "town" named Pisgah!  It  has been a beautiful day.  Sunny and 72 degrees and again breezy!  I think it must always be breezy here.  We saw several wild turkeys and farm after farm on the scenic byway.  There was even a sign, wish I had gotten a picture of it, that said "use road at own risk", it was a dirt road.  We saw but didn't go on several gravel roads, as they too were part of the scenic byway and looped back to the main one.  As we left Des Moines this morning we saw a sign for the Bridges of Madison County.  May have to check that out on our way back through there.  As we returned to civilization in Sioux City, IA, we were back on the highway and much to my delight in my new car a 75 mph speed limit!!  As we came into South Dakota, you could see for miles and miles!  It is very flat with a few rolling hills.  We zoomed zoomed along going a comfortable 80 mph passing slowpokes!  When we saw some sculptures in a field.  We stopped and drove back a long dirt/gravel "road" which crossed over a cattle gate...and cattle looking at us...to get to this Sculpture Park that apparently according to the sign had been a 50 Best Time magazine side road attractions!  Well for $6/person just to get out of the car we did a little circle and drove back out past the cows and the cattle gate to take the picture at the entrance of one of the sculpture.  It really was rather neat.  We surmised that the guy who did these, living in a travel camper in this field, must have been the son of the farmer who owned the field!!!

The above pic is of the South Dakota prairie. Rolling hills and waving grasses make a beautiful scene. I can't add any more pics tonight as I left my computer power cord in the car. I am not sure I can from my iPad. We arrived in Mitchell, SD. Here we took a trip downtown to see the Corn Palace. It was really cool and I will put that pic on tomorrow and tell about it. Right now, we've had dinner, Tom ran his 5K on the treadmill and now it's time to veg! Tomorrow we check out a prehistoric Indian village before heading west to the Badlands and Mt Rushmore. This is such a great trip and am so glad we did it!!!