N 41 32.940' W 95 55.197'

We stopped the night in a very very sleepy town called Missouri Valley, IA. The motel was in a great location right next to the only working bar in town. The bar was called the edge and its motto is "if you ain't livin on the edge, you are taking up too much space". A big group of us went there for dinner and $6 pitchers of bud light. The next morning we stopped along the Missouri River and looked at the Pierre Shale, which will be a major sed unit we will trace across the west.