Many Miles from Madison to Mitchell

This first photo is me (duh) wearing Chicago's "Bean" for a hat.
The internet connection at the Alternative Fuel Coffee House here in Rapid City, SD keeps kicking us off so it's hard to get photos on. Here's one to wet your appetite.
Wednesday we had a nice breakfast at the Sunprint Cafe in the USBank building, and after writing to you from Ancora coffee shop in Madison, WI, we visited Monona Terrace Community Center, another Frank Lloyd Wright design. The whole building incorporated a lot of round, cylindrical structures. We explored the inside a bit, but the rooftop gardens overlooking Lake Monona were really pretty. With our backs to the lake, we had a perfect view down Martin Luther King Ave/St/Blvd/Dr? straight to the state capital building. We knew we had a lot of driving ahead of us, and it was nearing one o'clock, so we left town for more westward driving along I-90.
We stopped for lunch at the drive-in (my first!) A&W and were tempted by the Spam Museum there in Austin, MN. We resisted and got back on the road, not stopping again until Sioux Falls, SD. In Sioux Falls we drove around in circles before we managed to find Falls Park. We stretched our legs and walked around the falls. There wasnt a lot of water, but there were a ton of red/pink rocks that made the view quite lovely. We realized that these rocks tied in to a lot of the surrounding area because many of the roads were the same reddish color. We then drove around town for another 15 or 20 minutes searching for a used-book store (or any book store for that matter) because we desperately needed Harry Potter 3 as we had finished the second book along that drive. Unlucky in that venture, we set off for Mitchell. We found our glorious Corn Palace Motel, complete with enormous plaster beasts out front (Bison and some other furry thing). We spilled icky cheese-curd juice on the bed and had to bug the awesome old lady who ran the place for new sheets at 11pm. Side note: She was the same woman with whom we made our reservation over the phone. We think she lives there. And never sleeps. We we're tired and smelly so we watched the end of Galaxy quest and ended a hard day of driving lazily.