Black HillsTrip - Day 1

The family and I did a four-day Fourth of July weekend trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota this past weekend.  We picked up the rental car on Thursday night and left at about 7 on Friday morning. We stopped at:
-the Iowa 80 truck stop
-a place near Albert Lea, MN, that had Viking statues
-the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, MN
-the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD
-an overlook of the Missouri River near Chamberlain, SD
-Murdo, SD, where we stopped for the night.
A couple other things:
-We watched/listened to all six Star Wars movies (in order 4,5,1,2,3,6) throughout the entire trip.  The best part was watching the surprise on Katie's face when she found out Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father.
- The skies were a bit creepy at times throughout the trip.  Smoke from wildfires in Canada were blowing southward toward the U.S. and making hazy skies and reddish suns and moons.  The reddish  sun over the (very green) emptiness of western South Dakota was disconcerting sometimes.