Thursday 7th - Travel to Aunt Carol's and Uncle Earl's in Minnesota

Today we got up, made breakfast, packed, said our goodbyes and were on the road about 9:15AM headed for Minnesota to spend the night at Aunt Carol's and Uncle Earl's. We initially would have liked to cruise through the Badlands and stop and see Jenn and Joe again, but after looking at 600 miles to cover today we decided to head north rather than south. Hopefully we will come back again and spend more time with them, it was great seeing our family out west.

We decided to not take the same route across SD that we took getting here, we swung north to pick up RT 212. It is quite good, a 65 mph speed limit and mostly deserted..if we ever ride the motorcycles this far, it would be the route to take rather than I90 which is 75mph and jammed with trucks, it is a much more leisurely drive. Once again the scenery was amazing.

We arrived at Aunt Carol's and Uncle Earle's about 10:30PM central time, it was dark but we managed to park without hitting anything.