South Dakota
There are 101 roadside signs announcing WALL DRUG as you drive west along I-90 in South Dakota. They advertise various categories of merchandise (including 5 cent coffee, so rare a thing that they eliminated the cent sign from the computer keyboard!) A bunch of the billboards simply announce that you can get free ice water if you stop there. An amazing place, Wall Drug. That's the thing about South Dakota. For the most part they don't have anything to attract tourists except for the very big things - like Mt Rushmore and the Badlands - so the rest of the state is left with having to create attractions to milk off the excess. Hence, things like Wall Drug, and the Reptile Emporium, and 1880's Town. (Sort of like 'The Thing' in Arizona!)
So we spent the day yesterday counting WALL DRUG signs as we drove through the state, and watching the light snow blow across the road. It is very cold here. In two days we'll be on our way again - hoping the storms will have blown through. (I'm sure that will be the case, since I won the turkey wishbone break and that was my wish.)
posted by Cathy @ 9:41 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
The Eastern part of SD would be offended if you were to leave them out of the attractions of the state.
I think that's a product of vast amounts of nothing...nothing to see, nothing to do, nothing to read, nothing to spend your money on. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (oh my GOD, have you ever driven across Texas? It's huge) all have attractions like that along the roads to the real tourist spots. You don't see that in the East...because there's not a lot of nothing out there.
One way to keep track of you anyway. Maybe it will be too cold to snow anymore! Good luck with the rest of the trip!
I agree about Texas, but we really thought we'd never get through Montana either! If you've ever driven across Kansas you know that their 'attractions' are all adult video stores - amazing roadside attractions! I guess South Dakota's tourist traps are OK by comparison! What a country!
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