Ever since we got into Kansas we have seen corn....HUGE amounts of corn...growing in massive fields along the roads we have been on.  The midwest truly is the cornbelt of the US!!  Here in Mitchell, SD they celebrate that corn with the World's Only Corn Palace, Starting in 1892 with the 1st Corn Palace the outside of the building is decorated with over 3,000 bushels of various grains, and over 275,000 ears of corn that are split in half.  Then all that is applied to the outside of the building in a "corn" by number design according to the year's theme.  It is a pretty remarkable sight, and a very unique folk art wonder out here on the prairie of SD.  This week is also the Corn Palace Festival which we visited.  We also visited the Cabela's store here; can't pass by one of them!  The second day were were here the temperature got up to mid-90's with high humidity; we thought we had left all that behind!  But only that 1 day was bad with the rest of our stay being very enjoyable.   We are headed north and a little west of here for a couple days, to Gettysburg, SD for a view of the Missouri River.