Monday, July 17, 2006
Day 25
Miller to De Smet - 77 miles
Another day of rolling farm land. The weather is still hot, 107 degrees. I have been leaving camp just as the sun starts to lighten the eastern sky to try and beat some of the heat. It is a littler hard to see or be seen but it is worth it. The further east we go the landscape is getting greener with more crops. We passed through a lot of little towns and one larger one, Huron on the James River.
We ended the day in De Smet where Laura Ingalles Wilder, the author of the "Little House" books lived. They were having a pageant in honor of her. I walked around the town and seen where she had lived and went to school. We also had to make our pilgrimage to the Dairy Queen for a daily dose of ice cream.
It only got down to 89 degrees at night so it was hard to sleep. I am not looking forward to the nights further east where we will have heat and humidity.
Another day of rolling farm land. The weather is still hot, 107 degrees. I have been leaving camp just as the sun starts to lighten the eastern sky to try and beat some of the heat. It is a littler hard to see or be seen but it is worth it. The further east we go the landscape is getting greener with more crops. We passed through a lot of little towns and one larger one, Huron on the James River.
We ended the day in De Smet where Laura Ingalles Wilder, the author of the "Little House" books lived. They were having a pageant in honor of her. I walked around the town and seen where she had lived and went to school. We also had to make our pilgrimage to the Dairy Queen for a daily dose of ice cream.
It only got down to 89 degrees at night so it was hard to sleep. I am not looking forward to the nights further east where we will have heat and humidity.
