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We departed the Mount Rushmore area on Monday shortly before lunch. The poor weather from the night before had washed out any chance of one last campfire before a long stretch on the road, and also left us packing up in a particularly muddy campsite.

The next few days would take us 1400 Kilometers (~900 miles) east, eventually reaching Gurnee Illinois (Just north of Chicago) where we planned to spend a day at the Six Flags theme park there. We had absolutely no schedule or itinerary for these 3 days, agreeing simply to go wherever the wind took us and take in any interesting sights or attractions along the way. With a fairly leisurely schedule requiring slighly less then only 500 Kilometers per day of driving we should have lots of time to stop as we saw fit.

The days blended together. With the beautiful scenery of the mountains that we had spent the last few weeks in now behind us, the transition back to the flat-lands was a bit of a let-down. This particular stretch of the I90 is rather nondescript and with the exception of a few tourist attractions we stopped at (the, in our opinion, much over-hyped “Wall Drug” being one of them) it was a fairly unmemorable ride.

One notable exception was a lunch stop in the picturesque city of Fairmont Minnesota where we enjoyed a relaxing few hours taking a dip in the lake after eating. Our Garmin GPS really proved worth it’s weight in gold when it came to leading us to great little areas like the park we were at, and then back to the interstate again afterwards.

On the third day we did spent a day in Wisconsin Dells (in Wisconsin, obviously) which is monikered “The Water Park Capital of the World”. After a few days on the road this was a good opportunity to wind down. We chose one of the smaller water parks which was fairly quiet compared to the larger most-popular ones, and this led to a day without lineups and frustration.

We opted to boondock for this entire section of the trip - no campgrounds, no hookups - just us, the RV, the generator when we needed power, and the road ahead.