We camped two nights along the Mississippi and were treated with spectacular sunsets without the attendant storms We’re getting accustomed to the humidity, but since we left the Rocky Mountains have been seeking out electrical hookups for air conditioning.
DesMoines River from mid trestle
Claire shrank
Bob
Busy on Father’s Day
Beer Garden on the trail in Slater
Mary and Joni, new trail friends
Entrepreneurs beside the trail. I picked green beans and corn to sell beside Coal River Road, Tornado, WV
We boondocked on a high ridge overlooking Badlands National Park. Fabulous 360 degree views of badlands cliffs, prairie grasses, sounds of larks and a gentle cooling breeze. Until. Soon after sunset the sudden layered clouds lit up with sheet lightening covering 180 degrees of our view, and the radio screaming thunderstorm warnings with 70 mile per hour gusts and tennis ball! hail. Claire does not like hail. Claire REALLY doesn’t like hail.
Prairie
- Despite some rockin’ and rollin’ and heavy rain, and at least once to head Turtle into the wind, we survived a South Dakota storm for the second time. (Tornado story elsewhere on newbohemians)
The late, after midnight, bedtime and newly chip sealed Badlands NP roads nixed the bike ride we’d planned, and suggested a 4.75 mile loop hike. Beautiful. Its much better to get out of your vehicle, or even a bike and dive into the sounds, smells and strange but gentle beauty of the prairie.
Where is Claire!
Bluebird
- We joined Harvest Hosts, since we were going to be out for several months in the motorhome (Turtle from now on). Harvest Hosts are businesses like wineries and farms, farm stands, that will allow you to park for the night. Most are in beautiful places. Of course you end up buying what they have to sell, so its a win win situation, and often we find we have something in common, like we did with the owner of Bear Butte
Gardens. 
- Michelle