South Dakota

We're off to South Dakota!! Sunday, September 16, we left Oklahoma and ventured 606 miles north to the town of Yankton, South Dakota. We traveled 5 states before making our arrival time of 7:00 p.m. It was an extremely long day, but one that went very fast, trying to keep up with all the states that we were going through. Yankton sets on the Missouri river and is right on the historic trail of Lewis and Clark. Yankton is actually in South Dakota and go across the river and you enter Nebraska. Our work will take us to both states. We are adjusting corn that has suffered from drought. It is everywhere here---rows and rows and on the hills and right beside the river, beside the camp grounds, right up to the trees. I have never seen so much corn in my life! Yankton is the home town of Tom Brokaw, so lots of memorabilia in this city. We had some time today and visited the Gavins Dam which is about 6 miles from town. I think the pictures even show some corn growing. Looks like we will be visiting here for 2 weeks or so, our boss informed us this morning that we could end up in North Dakota before the work here was finished.

We do have some local home town folks here with us. So nice to see the familiar faces again. We have been so fortunate so far, having someone we have known be a part of our work.

We were sad to leave Ramon Johnston from Lubbock in Oklahoma--see picture---we truly enjoyed making a new friend working and laughing together. Hopefully someday our track will cross again and we will have the honor of working with him again.

Work starts tomorrow morning bright and early--so

Until Then...........