You’d think it’s all about the Corn…
The Corn Palace is certainly the top Must-See attraction in Mitchell. But, we ended up staying here at this locale for a week, and discovered so much more. A HUGE Cabela’s store, several historical museums, we set foot into a Menard’s for the first time (and visited there daily ever-after). We stayed over to receive mail, and a few Amazon orders, one of which was a package of LED lights to upgrade Clark’s lighting and energy consumption. Experienced the fringes of a severe weather front, and slowly getting Darcy acclimated to a harness/leash for outside time. Oh, and a lunar eclipse to boot.
Seriously, a Severe Thunderstorm
While at yet another visit to Menards, everybody’s phone started sounding off with severe weather alerts. Being only 2 miles away thank goodness, we scrambled back home to batten down. Loud and large, we sat through 5 minutes of hail, watching the orchard of Aspen trees we were nestled amongst in the Campground get blown. That was the worst of it for us fortunately – just rain and wind gusts thereafter (with a peaceful and stunning sunset to top it off). Not so fortunate were folks 30 miles in Sioux Falls and beyond to the East; many semi-trucks toppled over on the interstate, and we heard of a scary commute one guy had to get home (two windows on his car actually shattered due to the winds!).
Album of Mitchell – the Storm and more
Fun and Games, but house-chores too
The Dakota Discovery Museum was visited as well as the Prehistoric Indian Village, learning about the history of this area. We visited Lake Mitchell too, and did three hiking trails around the lake, plus stopped to play on the old-school carousel that we couldn’t resist. Along with Fun and Games, we knocked out some TLC for Clark. The hot water pressure valve gave out (and my SuperMan hero Jim figured out what the issue was and researched how to fix it which he did!). Also replaced incandescent lighting with LED lights throughout Clark – this will help in two ways; avoid generating unnecessary radiant heat into the coach, and more importantly reduce battery consumption by a tremendous amount.
