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<\/a><\/p>\nI pulled over shortly thereafter at the rest area in Wilmot:<\/p>\n
It boasted a scenic overview of the Whetstone Valley, but it was really tough to get a clear shot of it:<\/p>\n I learned that all South Dakota rest areas have a no camping rule:<\/p>\n I stopped a few more times before having to make unexpected repairs at the last rest area before Iowa:<\/p>\n Believe it or not, all of the Eternabond tape I’d applied to the loft<\/a> came loose!!! I was just driving along minding my own business and suddenly noticed flapping out of the corner of my eye. It wasn’t an emergency, so I drove almost 200KM like that before hitting the rest area. And not a moment too soon because I went to the shower to get my step-stool and, bam, the shower door toppled onto me. I don’t know who designed it, but it is not made for RV use. There is a pin that holds the door in place and when I am on a rough and bouncy road (which describes all of I29 in South Dakota) the door bounces up and down until the pin gets loose. I haven’t come up with a way to secure it and am growing increasingly annoyed with it. Once, the door even bounced right out of the frame, denting both itself and the floor<\/a>!<\/p>\n After I rolled out of that rest … oh, wait. Eternabond! Yes, after I wrestled the shower door back in place, I applied some new Eternabond over part of the old stuff to stick it back in place. I am definitely going to be trying my hand at fiberglass this summer, so I just wanted this to hold till I get to Quebec.<\/p>\n By this point, the weather had gone from ‘getting warm’ to ‘infernal’, so I put on the AC and headed out of South Dakota to enter the state where two favourite fictional characters were born:<\/p>\n I stopped at the rest area to see if there was anything interesting there. Yup:<\/p>\n information about the only man who died on the Lewis and Clark expedition<\/p><\/div>\n The names of the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition were written around the building. Lots and lots and lots and lots of French Canadians, including:<\/p>\n I thought these benches were cute:<\/p>\n A good day of fishing on the expedition:<\/p>\n Driving along, I noticed smoke and, HOLY RANDOM FIRE, BATMAN:<\/p>\n you can’t really see the flames in the pic but they were THIS BIG<\/p><\/div>\n And then, the Omaha skyline:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>