Day 18 Sept 14




 Well for the first time in a long while I rode comfortably without a jacket this afternoon.  So I just that means the weather was good!


We left early this morning from Yankton following a Google bike route and it placed us of gravel roads.  We then choose to run about 4 miles on four lane Hwy that google finally hooked up tCio a paved road through the rest of the route to Sioux City Iowa.  The towns we passed through were Gayville, Vermillion, Elk Point and Jefferson before arriving in Sioux city,


Elk City had a history marker that a police man stoped at to make sure were OK as I had stopped to read the marker.  It gave the fact that Lewis and Clark stoped there in 1804, it was then put on the road to Fort Randal and it never became a steam boat stop.  But it did have some interesting old building.  


Once in Sioux City we stopped at and looked at the Sargent Floyd river boat operated by Corp of Engineers on the Missouri River till about 30 years ago.  This boat had twin diesel engines and was just about 100 years old.  Meaning the original steam engine was replace in 1937.  The boat was build in Jefferson IN in the early 1900 hundreds.


Then we took in the Betty Strong engagement center and the Lewis and Clarke Interpretive centers.  Betty was a chair of the Democratic party in Iowa (I know no one knew there was such a party here but there is or was) and arranged for the founding for the site. On her side of the site they presented a very good view of both the history and engagement of cultures in the area.  The Lewis and Clark center gave perspectives of different people on the voyage over the time.  A lot of attention was devoted to Sargent Floyd who was the person to of died during the Trip.  They also had a neat viewing of Seeway Lewis’ dog over the trip.  


Other notes:

  • Would the town name Gayville or Gayville Town Music Hall be allowed in Florida
  • I forgotten that one man deserted the corp of Discovery and was brought back and made to run the gauntlet  four times.
  • People still put out old farming equipment and cars to show there ranch entrances.  
  • One guy even build a fence out of Old Bike parts
  • Note in the pictures I still play with and levers I find and someone named a street after me
  • Counts
    • Traffic
      • 38 cars (again not counting in town and the short time on the 4 lane I was busy trying not to fall off the shoulder to count)
      • 18 pick up trucks
      • 12 transports trucks
      • 2 motorcycles (one stopped beside me and said we had to dumber than him riding such small cycles)
      • 1 RV
    • Agriculture stuff
      • 125 silo (not sure there were not more as in places there were a lot of them and could not count fast enough). This just show how big the fields are becoming.
      • 98 fields of soybean
      • 88 fields of corn
      • 30 sorghum fields
      • 12 alfa fields
    • Other stuff
      • 3 baseball fields
      • 2 football fields
      • 1 speedway race track
      • 6 churches
      • 4 schools
      • 1 old fashion outdoor skating rink waiting for winter
      • 4 bridges
      • 10 casinos (again this is low as a lots of small one exist that missed)
      • 2 road side historic markers













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