Day Eight
Sheep Butt on a Stick
Crummy weather again today. High winds, cold, low overcast.
Yesterday we totally explored Yankton, SD (location of the state's insane asylum!), so today we took a ride out to the nearest town. Gayville (no, I'm not kidding) is 10 miles east, and it's the "Hay capital". In line with the "Hay capital" theme, there's a place called the "Hay Country Cafe" and even "Hay Jude's". This is a very simple place. You can tell because the bank building just has a sign "BANK" and the public school is, naturally, "PUBLIC SCHOOL". You can imagine what they call the General Store, but there was a sign of originality with "Bubba's Bar and Grill" (honest!).
After 5 minutes we thoroughly toured Gayville, and went on to Volin, 6 miles farther down the road. It's the "Small town with a big heart". Seems like all these little towns have to have something unique about them or they might develop an identity crisis.
Stopped for lunch at a place called "Mom's", thinking that Mom wouldn't serve any bad food. The menu featured a thing called "Chislic" and my curiosity got the better of me. After sending the waitress back to ask Mom, who was cooking in the kitchen, just exactly what is "chislic", we were told that it's sheep. The second trip back to Mom revealed that the part of the sheep chislic comes from is the "hind". They serve it on a stick, and that's the truth. Real chewy stuff, and it's best cooked a lot. I think the stick probably gives it some flavor. I refused to taste it, but Art and his Uncle Les both tried it, but they didn't go back for seconds. Sheep butt on a stick. It's amazing what some people eat.
A bit dazed with all the excitement of Gayville and Volin, we toured back to Yankton and hit the afternoon matinee at the movies, and snuck back in to see the same movies we saw yesterday, but in the reverse sequence. Don't ask me why. I guess just for something different.
When we got out, the sun was shining and the clouds were scattered and the winds were almost flyable. Tomorrow it will be clear, and we will almost certainly fly east. Two days on the ground in a place like Yankton and you start to run out of possibilities.
We attack at dawn.
Stay tuned.
Click here for chislic details.
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