Murdo, SD

Tonight we are at the American RV Park in Murdo, SD home of the Pioneer Auto Museum. This morning we went to church in Grant, NE with two of my sisters and their husbands. We then went back to sister Gloria's house for omelets in a bag before departing. I went to start the motor home and the batteries were dead. We pulled the battery tray out in preparation to charge the coach batteries and brother in law Al said whats this, I looked and thought it was a plastic liner on the battery tray. Upon further examination we found that the rear battery had exploded sometime in the past, I don't know just when but it wasn't recently as the battery was dry and the battery tray was also dry. Luckily Gloria and Ron had a battery just like we needed in the shop that they had taken off an irrigation well so we finally got on the road about 1:30. We traveled north on US 61 to Ogalalla, NE where we turned east on I-80 to North Platte, NE. From North Platte is was north on US 83 through the beautiful sand hills of NE. The hills were so were so green and dotted with the small sand hills lakes, the peacefully grazing cattle and the occasional ranch head quarters nestled in a deep green sub irrigated valleys made for a very relaxing afternoon of driving. Entering South Dakota the pastures became less rolling and more populated but still just as green but with out the lakes but still filled with cattle. Spring is such a beautiful time in this area. Latter in the summer it will turn brown and have a lesser beauty to it. Today was finally a day one could wear shorts again as the wind wasn't blowing and it was above 80 degree's.