We have no control over weather only whether we'll choose to be controlled.
There are actually lakes in South Dakota. Lake Poinsettia Recreation Area. This was an amazing viewing event. Thousands (no joke) of birds sat floating in the lake in front of our camp. From the east one bird started to fly and with that in succession like "the wave" at a college football game each bird took to flight moving just 25 feet further to the east before landing, resting afloat again.
I visited the Perryville Battlefield in Kentucky, a battle won by the Confederates, but left the state of Kentucky in Union hands. Standing among the rolling fields of the battlefield were blatant clues to this battle won, but war lost. In the valley a small fleet of Confederate soldiers hid to later storm the unprepared Union army at the top of one particular knoll. When the Confederates reached the summit to sweeping views of Union troops on each hilltop as far as the eye could see they retreated and fled Kentucky leaving behind their dead and wounded. By all historic accounts the Confederates won the Battle at Perryville. Metaphorically speaking often I find myself rushing to reach the hilltop never paying mind to the landscape beyond.
Driving US back roads from nowhere to nowhere in no particular hurry.
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