Today was a day that had two main purposes. One was to get us closer to Lincoln in Nebraska, the other we'll get to in a minute.
We decided on a later breakfast as we had no activities planned for the day and our journey wasn't quite as long as yesterday. The only down side to a later breakfast is that everyone else goes then as well. We ended up sitting on the settee in the lobby as all the tables were full.
We set off just after 11am and within five minutes we had achieved our second objective as we crossed into Minnesota which meant we have now been in every contiguous state in the USA. Only Hawaii and Alaska are left.
We drove for a while in Minnesota before crossing back over the border into North Dakota and joining I-29 south.
We kept driving, crossing back into South Dakota and eventually stopped in Watertown for lunch. We visited a https://www.firehousesubs.com/ for lunch.
We got back on I-29 and cracked on south eventually reaching Sioux Falls just after 3.30pm.
We checked in and hung around for a while before heading out later on.
We went to a Barnes and Noble bookshop as Ann had run out of things to read. Books were bought. We then nipped into Walgreens before we took dad to his first drive in restaurant, Sonic. Food was great although his meal was apparently 7000kcal or something like that. Ann said she wanted to try their frozen custard for dessert until she found out it was about 2000kcal for one serving.
We headed back for a earlier night as we want to get up and moving in the morning in case the traffic is heavy. It's all the TV channels have been saying, the traffic will be really bad due to people traveling to see the eclipse on Monday.
States visited - 10
Total states visited - 48
