Day 4

This day was kind of boring. We left Sioux Falls in the morning around 10am I think...I really don't remember. Anyhow, we traveled south on the 29, crossing the border into Iowa and heading toward Sioux City.


The Missouri River creates the border between South Dakota and Iowa...

You can kind of see it....

Well, there was construction right around the welcome sign into Iowa, so I didn't get a picture of it.

Iowa is SO boring. There is nothing to see....

(Except another wind turbine!!)

We stopped to get gas in a very small town.....





(Grades 7-12 are having a dance on the 20th. That's middle school and high school together!)








Vincent took this picture.....he was amused.






















And we kept driving into Illinois. The Mississippi River marks the border between Iowa and Illinois....





(Pretty.)









(The Mississippi is wide enough, I had time to look up from what I was reading, realize we were crossing a river, get the camera, turn it on, and snap about 4 pictures.)









Right after crossing the river, we were in Illinois.







(We didn't stop for this state line.)










We drove well into the night. After calling ahead and finding out that hotels in Chicago range between $299 and $599, we decided to stay outside of Chicago in a city called Aurora, Illinois. It made us miss our little niece Aurora.



















(Gas in Aurora was $4.15 - yikes!)










We stopped for the night at a moderately priced Comfort Suites. That was it for that day.




DAY FOUR:

Sioux Falls, SD to Aurora, IL: 595 miles

Total miles traveled: 2,355 miles