After navigating a lengthy section of "deconstructed" highway, followed by a quick drive through the Rosebud Tribe reservation (including a rather impressive and seemingly out of place casino on the South Dakota-Nebraska state line), it was mid-afternoon on one of my longest days of driving down the “Road To Nowhere.” And I still had one of the loneliest stretches of U.S. 83 ahead of me before day’s end – the sandhills of west-central Nebraska.
Before that, however, I wisely made a rest stop at the first sign of civilization just nine miles past the South Dakota border. And it turned to be a very worthwhile stop in lovely Valentine, Neb.
