Sioux City

Tuesday, July 8 made for a long driving day. We did get a great start, leaving around 6:20 AM and it remained quite cool for a good bit of the morning. We even went through a little rain as we were leaving Hannibal. As we drove west across Missouri, we couldn't get over the enormous amounts of fields of corn we saw. Of course we know there are many states that grow corn, including our own. It just makes it a reality seeing how much corn the US produces. I had to get a picture of a wind turbine again (if you scroll way back to our very first road trip, you will understand).

After what seemed like forever, we finally entered Iowa and stopped for lunch and to refuel. Initially, our plan was to drive to Omaha and stop there but Daniel decided to keep going. On Maps, it seems like it would merely be an extra couple of hours. However, when you have to drive 55-60 mph, it takes a little (lot) longer. We did drive Interstate 29 through Iowa which wasn't so bad.

We didn't stop in Omaha. This is the only picture I took.

We finally arrived in Sioux City around 3 PM. If you remember from our 2021 road trip, we stayed a night in Sioux City on our way back, near the end of that journey. Daniel and I even dropped in for a CrossFit workout at CrossFit Beo before we started driving again. Anyway, we found a campground right on the Missouri River, so we crossed a bridge over which brought us into Nebraska, into South Sioux City. This is the first time we have been in the state of Nebraska, so we can add that to our list of states visited now. Once we arrived after the long drive, we decided this place would be fine to stay for two nights. So that's where we are now.

By the way, the sun didn't set last night until 9:15 PM. But it was pretty. Hopefully we will find a few things to do today while we are here.