Travel day two

The end of day two found us in Wall, South Dakota.   Seemed like a long time to get there.  Really we didn't have an actual itinerary for any of our days.   We did have a little method to our madness ;)
Mitchell is the home of the Corn Palace.  

The Corn Palace is pretty amazing.   They change the murals on the outside of the building each year.  The local college art director comes up with the ideas and many work together to get the design on the outside walls.   Then they put corn and other living things up to fill in the mural.   Each year they have a Corn Festival which is kind of like a county or state fair.   People come from far and wide to enjoy the Festival.  

During the school year, the high school basketball team uses the Corn Palace for their basket ball games as do the College.   The high School team is known as...you got it....the Kernals and their team color is gold!  

We then headed out toward Wall, South Dakota.   Everyone has told us you have got to go to Wall Drug.   Well, you couldn't miss Wall Drug from all the advertising along the road!   Along the way we saw signs talking about the 1880 town.   We were ready to stop for a pit stop and fill our stomachs when we saw the exit for the town.   First of all there was a train we could eat lunch in.  Food was good :)    We asked the waitress was it really worth paying to get in the old town next two them.   She said it really was and to tell the guy taking money that we were really nice and deserved a discount!  So we did and he gave us a discount.

 

The town is comprised of a multiple sided barn that was moved the new location from some 30 miles away.   The people who own this town have quite a collection of things they have bought over the years.   The town has been put together from bits and pieces of other towns that have been declining over the years and needed to sale parts of their buildings.  ie; one room school house, bank, saloon, etc.   Most things are in pretty good shape but some are in quite the disrepair.   It was still interesting to see all the things and it reminded me of many things from my youth!!

They also had animals and some of the "Dances with Wolves" wagons and other memorabilia.

 

It was really worth the stop.   Good thing we had been hungry and needed to use the bathroom or we may have driven right on by.   Just wish I had more time to look.   Some really neat things there.