Heading from Cherokee west to South Dakota, we stopped in the "Ice Cream Capital of the World " which was in the town of LeMars, Ia. Of course, even though it was in the mid.60's, we had to stop for ice cream at their Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor made by the Wells family since 1913. They were designated as "The Ice Cream Capital of the World" in 1994 because more ice cream is produced in Le Mars, Iowa by a single company than any other city in the world!! And what great ice cream it was!!!! Mike and Jason had sundaes and I had some ice cream dish with caramel ice cream, caramel sauce and pecans. That was our lunch for today!!! Westward we headed to Herman Lake State Park near our new hometown of Madison, South Dakota. This park was beautiful and very well manicured. It was surrounded by water: Herman Lake and Herman Pond. There were three good walking trails and a nice bike ride loop 2.5 miles around the whole park. Little up and down but offered some great views of the park and lakes. There were only electric hookups; but their bathrooms were very clean and the sites were nicely spread out and large. We ended up on the highest site in the park with its great views and even better after the weekend campers left. We really enjoyed this park for five nights because this was now our permanent home in terms of licensing, titling of vehicles and our newly voting city and state. We were there to take care of business it which we did. They offer a permanent mail forward address and have no state income tax and the fee are cheaper. Mike enjoyed the whole area because there was no litter to be found along roads or side roads as in other states. We took a drive to Sioux Falls (about an hour away) to find a bike shop for repair parts one day and we tried our hand at disc golf since the course was right in Herman Lake S.P. A nice short course around some trees with views of the lake all round. The bike ride was very enjoyable probably because the weather was so nice and the skies were totally blue. After a couple of days in the park, we started smelling that awful algae/toxic smell just like from St. Mary's S.P. in Ohio. Sure enough, Lake Herman had as much algae but the ranger assured us that the water was still swimable. Well once we smelled this algae, we became bombarded by the flies -- not the biting kind but the annoying kind. Since we had completed our business there, we decided to cut our stay one day short and move onward west to our next stop, The
Badlands N.P. in South Dakota.
For More Information Go To:
lakeherman@state.sd.us
bluebunny.com
www.sdparks.info
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