We have completed two days of traveling, each 300 miles, and being in a hurry, we have traveled at or near the posted speed limit on the highways. In Mitchell South Dakota I filled the van with what looked like a better fuel with a higher octane rating, but it was an ethanol blend. The octane rating was something like 89 or so, and the cost was less than the lesser octane rated regular. I think that the cost per gallon was around $3.74 at this pump in Mitchell. We have had two days travel with hills, headwinds or side winds, and being in a hurry, I have been traveling between 65 and 70 MPH, and our fuel cost has gone way up. The last two days of travel have cost 62 cents per mile, and we have felt the need to refuel midday to reach the planned stopping point. This fuel may not be the best preforming solution for our van, and I’ll be careful to not use it in the future.
Sturgis South Dakota is a town that is geared up for an incredible number of people in August. The grocery store even had RV utility hookups in the parking lot, as did several other parking lots down the same street. The town was pretty tame the evening that we were there, but it looked like it could handle thousands of visitors when the Motorcycle Rally is happening.
Anne-Marie and I traveled northwest on Hwy 212 and we saw antelope in small groups and large groups for nearly the entire distance, and there must have been hundreds of them. There must be some attraction to the Hwy, or their numbers must be in the thousands within several miles of the road. We were looking from the left and then to the right, here’s some and there’s some too, for over a hundred miles.
Today is another travel day, and it is becoming a bit of a drag not being able to tour any of the neat places that we have discovered. Anne-Marie wants to stop in Bozeman, Montana to visit a Museum, and I think that I will be up to the rest from driving, and a busy day of touring.
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