Monday, July 23, 2012 Day 18
Got up and showered!
What a concept, a shower in a campground. Made our usual coffee and oatmeal for the
road, packed up camp and drove to Pierre (pronounce Pier in SD language),
capital of South Dakota. Went into the
capitol building and looked around.
While Jodi was in the restroom, State Senator Jim Hundstad from Bath,
SD, stopped and started talking to Jack.
He spent 20 minutes with us talking about SD government and the capitol
building. Then he had to go to a
meeting, addressing issues from the flooding (even though this year they are in
a drought). He was very friendly and
informative. We greatly appreciated the
time and information he gave us. He
showed us the 3rd from the top post holding up the banister of the
center marble staircase. It is upside
down. It had purposefully been removed
and replaced upside down as it was a common Indian ritual to purposefully make
a mistake in even their finest beadwork to show that we all sometimes feel like
we don’t fit in. Very interesting. We took his picture by the upside down
post.
The state capitol building was
copied after Helena’s state capitol building which we were also in. Walked around the capitol seeing the governor’s
mansion and other buildings. 
Went to
Napa Auto Parts to get a new gas cap to hopefully solve our check engine light
problem. Drove east toward Waterton
through rural agricultural South Dakota.
Lots of corn and soy beans and big agricultural machinery. Stopped at a Catholic church in Zell. There was a sign that no masses were
scheduled. Church had been in existence
since 1893-2011. Sad. Walked through the cemetery and ate leftovers
from the cooler, Jodi made a yummy salad with our leftover ribeye and
walleye. Continued on to Watertown and
went to the Teri Redlin Art Museum. Amazing place of an amazing talent. He was born and went to high school in
Watertown. At one time he was selling
more paintings in the USA than any other painter. He built the museum and gave it to the
town. They do not charge admission. It is a beautiful, modern building with 150
or more original works with explanations of all. Also shows his childhood work and newspaper
articles about him. His wife was a from a prominent dairy family who had a line of ice cream, so they had
an ice cream room in there as well.
Went to the City park at Lake Kampeska and walked
around. Went to our next ATC host, Mary's lovely
home, another of our travel club member’s home and chatted for awhile. She went with us to dinner at Lunker’s also
on Lake Kampeska. Had Monday’s 2 for 1
special hamburgers. Yum. Stayed up and watched a show on PBS Antique
Pickers? Showed us her collection
of political memorabilia. She had quite a
collection . I guess a lot of people do this as she goes to conventions
of folks with similar interests. Spoke
of her travels to Norway and Vancouver Island where there is a large group of
ATC members. She is a retired social
worker. Lovely person. It was strange but wonderful to sleep in a bed.
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