Road Trip – Omaha to Seattle – Day 3 – Still in Sioux Falls, SD – September 13, 2010

I woke up at 7:20 and drove Jesse's car up to the dealership. When I got there, the very sweet Rachel was going over my info and making up a report. She said she would call me with their findings and try and get it fixed as soon as possible. I went back down to Jesse's house and watched some tv for awhile. I got a call around 9:30 and she had some bad news for me. It had affected another pulley and something else and was going to be about $550. They didn't have the crank pulley in stock and had to order it. It usually takes a week. They had the option of overnight shipping for an extra 40. I did it of course, and so now I wait another day in SFSD. Watched tv and blogged until about 1 pm and headed out to see the city a bit just walking around. I walked around the downtown area, which is really cool and took lots of pictures of their sculptures on the street. They have dozens of sculptures lining the downtown streets. I hopped on the free trolley and went back to Falls Park, where the rapids cascade down into waterfalls in the middle of town. I got back on the trolley and Jesse called me up to tell me he got off work early. So I walked to his house and waited for him to get home. Then we got in the car and drove out about a half hour away to Devil's Gulch. Devil's Gulch is where, supposedly (there are disputes), Jesse James the outlaw, after being on the run for two weeks, with half his men dead, jumped his horse over a 100 foot tall gulch at a place where the span was about 15-20 feet. The posse chasing him were all too scared and amazed to attempt it, and Jesse James then escaped to Missouri. We also went to Palisade State Park and did a little nature hike and took some photos. Jesse showed me where he had jumped off huge rocks into the water below in his youth, and I found some wild cactus growing that I took a sample of, along with some quartzite for home.
We headed back into SF around sunset and went to Wiley's Bar and Grill, a former employer of Jesse's, and a pretty neat bar. We watched Monday Night Football, the Ravens beat the Jets and the Chiefs beat the Chargers. The wings were decent, the pizza edible. And the only real drawback was the loud and drunk 30 year HS reunion going on around us. We went home and went to bed around 12am.