8-8-12 day 12 Rapid City to Council Bluffs, IA

We had breakfast at the hotel and got on the road about 7 am after saying our goodbyes to Doreen who is catching a flight back about 11. We headed out on 90E crossing the Missouri river back the way we had come until Sioux Falls and then in order to take a different route, we took 29S toward Sioux City to 80E just outside of Omaha,NB on the east side of the Missouri River and called it a day in Council Bluffs, Iowa. We can see downtown Omaha as it's just across the river. We rode three legs of around 2-1/2 hrs and roughly 170/180 miles each with lunch after the second leg just south of Sioux Falls. Tally for the day was 520 miles. The temp got up to about 95 on the last leg and we lucked out as the clouds got dark as we pulled into the hotel about 5 pm, checked in, unpacked and went to the pool to cool off the sky's opened up as a thunderstorm came through. 15 minutes later we had a rainbow! Our hotel is in the convention center district and there's a few casinos & riverboat casino here. Our hotel looks at Binion's casino so we walked across the street and went to the buffet with some 2for1 coupons Sue & Mark found out about. Tomorrow's plan is similar to today to get another 500ish miles in. One last note to remind you to keep your focus while riding. Around 12:30 pm today on I-90E about 10 miles before the turn off to 29S we came upon Sheriffs flashing lights, the right lane closed and a sign saying accident scene ahead. This went on for several miles with Sheriffs stationed about every 1/3 of a mile until we saw a car carrier with a badly mangled Harley Electra Glide laying sideways on the bed. Smurph just googled to look up any news about it and found the news story that the operator lost control and crashed, no other vehicles involved, 1 person was pronounced dead at the scene and the other is in critical condition.