2021-08-09 St Jospeh MO to Yankton SD - 302 miles

Boy it was hot this afternoon. We are headed north so hopefully we will miss the heat wave projected for this next week. it hit about 99 degrees as we ended the day and anything above 95 with protective gear on gets toasty, and wears us out.

The new thing with motels is the "Grab-N-Go" breakfast due to Covid. We are starting to see things close up again because of all the un-vaccinated folks filling hospitals. Add the ever present smoke everywhere, and this trip will be memorable, maybe not in a good way. The drive-thru businesses are booming.

The closest we could get to the river for most of the day was Rt29 which was easy, quick, and pretty devoid of traffic. Again soy and corn everywhere, even in South Dakota. It's all efficient big ag these days. We would love to come through when they are harvesting everything.

We met a guy coming back from Sturgis (he only stayed a day). He is South African but moved to Florida a few years ago. He bought Harley's latest bike, which looks quite impressive. We kept getting asked if we were going to Sturgis, and no, that is the last place we want to be.

He had done a challenge when he was riding BMW GS's called the Hoka Hay. Florida to Alaska, 10K miles in 10 days. Nut-so stuff. We did 300 or so today..

We had fun with bluetooth today. My headset kept picking up Dave's GPS and I could not get my navigation to connect, or rather it did but it was so low volume, I could barely hear it. The intercom work so we turned most everything off and just used the intercom. Too much @#$% technology.

The big stop today was the Sgt Floyd Monument in Sioux City. Lewis & Clark only lost one man, Sgt Floyd, when they think his appendix burst and they did not have the knowledge or expertise to save him. They buried him near Sioux City and they later erected the monument to him, but mostly to the expedition.

It hit 99 as we pulled into Yankton but the hotel AC was blasting and there was a good Mexican Restaurant across the street with cold beer and AC.

Odometer:4099-3797=302 miles