Day 5 Sparta, WI to Mitchell, SD

The word for the day is HOT!!!!!!!!!!! Here's a pic of my dashboaard temp guage for reference.

We left our hotel just after 7 with our plan to stop at the Harley dealer in Sioux Falls so I could get a new rainsuit bottom as I found out on Saturday mine is leaking as the interior secondary tape seams have basically come loose. The weather at departure was nice. As a matter of fact we all had sweatshirts on. We went about 120 miles and someone needed a "bathroom break"!! We decided to gas up as well. By this time it had warmed up and we took a layer off. By the time we got to Sioux Falls about 1 PM it was near 105 degrees!! It may be normal for this area but it SUCKS!! We did just under 400 miles today and I think I'm at 1,850 plus miles from my house. One other thing we've seen mostly in Minnesota are wind farms. HUGE wind farms. We had one in Indiana about halfway between Indianapolis & Chicago and the rest were in Minnesota. There are hundreds of them in each of these farms. At some of the farms they all are running and some maybe 50%. Don't know why that is but these are always located in the middle of either soybean or cornfields that I assume the farmer gets some kind of stipend for. Here's a pic of them by Annie from the passenger seat as we were going along.

Tomorrow we will arrive in Rapid City which is our home base for the next 6 nights. Mark's wife Doreen is flying in tomorrow to join our crew. We plan on doing Wall's Drug and the Badlands National Park on the way to Rapid tomorrow. One last thing I need to correct. I had thought Mark had been to Sturgis before but he has not so we are all newbs for this adventure!