July 24, 2007 Yesterday it was 102 in Sioux Falls, and today it reached 106 in the Badlands. Holy cow, it is really hot! I wasn’t sure our poor van was going to be able to pull the camper in that kind of heat, but someone we made it. Yesterday, we stayed in Sioux Falls the whole day. Luckily, there was a camper dealer next door who very happily kept our van for most of the day to add the cables to run the camper brakes. We stayed at a KOA right off the highway, but were lucky that it had a pool. We spent hours at the pool and in the camper with our AC on. Late that night, we drove to the Badlands. OK, so we thought that driving when the kids were asleep
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