On the flip side - Winoona to Chamberlain - 653km

We had an easy start today, packing up and saying goodbye to all the folks at the meet. We made sure Dave and Adrienne and the Cooper S were taken care of as we are splitting up, with Dave headed off with Marcel and Murray, borrowing the trailer and truck while Marcel drives his Mini. What a great guy and fabulous support from the Mini community to help out Dave. We ended up leaving about 9:00, and stopped in AUSTIN MINIsota to the the SPAM museum, as we missed it on the way out due to the Cooper S engine problems. After a rousing song of SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM..etc.. we headed back onto I90 west.. We then stopped off in Mitchell SD to check out the Corn Palace, but they were in the midst of removing all the murals and refreshing with a new theme, so it was not as impressive as it can be..but there was a place for Linda to go shopping.. We headed out and ran into torrential rainstorms, along the way and in the middle of a rainstorm, the VTEC ran out of gas..we were testing to see how accurate the guage was.. so we pulled to the side and top speed up with the spare can, then headed into the nearest gas station to top up the tank and the spare can. Then as we headed down the road in the pouring rain and with my wipers not working, we decided to stop in Chamberlain, a beautiful little town right along the river..dinner done and wipers sorted!