Sunday, June 16, 2013

Day 2- June 10, 2013

Hello! Today we began our journey from Holdrege, Nebraska! Since we arrived here last night when it was a little dark out, we didn't really get to see very much of the environment. Leaving our hotel, we saw lots of farms and wildlife. It didn't smell too great here, either. We made it to the airport, returned the courtesy car and double checked our next route... We were surprised! Our next destination, Brookings, South Dakota was low IFR! We were shocked. We looked at the TAF and called flight service for a briefing with reassurances that Brookings would be VFR by the time we got there, but decided we would wait an hour or so. In the meantime, we got our airplane fueled and met a local crop dusting pilot.


Before we left, we checked the weather yet again, this time with Brookings 100% VFR and headed out. Nebraska was beautiful from the air.


Around the Nebraska-South Dakota border we saw the weather that delayed our departure, but all was well! We made a quick stop in Brookings for fuel and said hello to South Dakota State University.
And we were off yet again, this time our sites were set on our final stop of the day in Spearfish, South Dakota! South Dakota was also really pretty from the air- way different than Prescott!



Once we started seeing the terrain in the picture above, we knew we were getting close! The whole 'Black Hills' of South Dakota thing was very apparent. There was so much green! We landed in Spearfish and couldn't waste the great photo opportunity.


We got settled into our hotel and had some spare time, so we decided to make the drive to Mount Rushmore!




We ran into a little bit of courtesy car trouble on the way out... Luckily it was nothing serious. Thanks to Robb Webb, an awesome park ranger, who was able to help us out. We're looking forward to our journey tomorrow!

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