Saturday, January 17, 2015

South Dakota by the Numbers

We spent Christmas and New Year's with DF's family in South Dakota. I'll summarize the trip by the numbers!


  • Days of travel: 14
  • Miles driven in our car: 2,200
  • Additional miles riding in other cars: 350
  • Relatives visited: 40ish
  • People in attendance at Fort Pierre community Christmas dinner: 300
  • Times we ate at buffets: 6
  • Blizzards encountered: 0 (hooray!)
  • Lowest windchill reading noticed: -27
  • Blankets received as presents: 3
  • Maximum movies watched in one day: 4
  • New states visited by Salmonista: 1 (Nebraska)
  • Audio books listened to: 0.7 (didn't quite finish 1)
  • Different beds slept in: 6
  • Meals at Taco John's: 1
  • Nights of lodging location determined by proximity to Trader Joe's: 1
  • Cheapest gas: $1.79/gal in Missouri
  • Amount my knowledge of farming-related issues increased: 50%
  • Corn Palaces visited: 1
  • Cans of silly string sprayed at New Year's Eve party: too many to count
In sum, it was a good trip!

(photo evidence)

Omaha, NE lunch stop. It's a buffalo!

Christmas Eve sunset on I-90

Community Christmas dinner

White Christmas!

The world-famous Corn Palace

BBQ in Kansas City. It was not quite Memphis-style, but still good!




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