Day 3--Ending our day in South Dakota

Driving through South Dakota, we saw these Wall Drug signs every mile so for about three hours. The billboards stretch for over 500 miles on interstate 90. The first one we saw advertised ice cream and cold drinks at Wall Drug, so we figured it was just a regular drug store. But as we kept driving, it advertised just about everything, including western clothing, mining equipment, burgers, and even dinosaurs! It also offered free coffee and a donut to veterans, honeymooners, hunters, and truck drivers. We were very curious to see this drug store that housed a giant green dinosaur as well as free water, so we pulled off the interstate to see it. It ended up being less like a single store, and more of an outdoor mall with many little shops, and-you guessed it-a giant green dinosaur!

We finally arrived in the town of Mitchell, South Dakota late in the evening, and went across the street to a 24-hour restaurant frequented by travelers and truck drivers. As depicted by the picture below, we were very tired!

We stayed in this lovely Thunderbird Lodge that night. It was by no means luxury, but by all means better than what we stayed in the next night!