Thursday September 4, 2008

We had a beautiful sunrise this morning but looking west we could see we were going to run into some rain. We decided to drive on through to Teddy Roosevelt National Park which is on the border of N Dakota and Montanna. We traveled 425 miles passing through Fargo ND and Bismark, the ND capital. This area is described as the northern plains and the vistas you see are really indescripable. We have certainly entered The Big Sky country we mentioned yesterday! The land and sky continue on forever. The little towns and communitys along the way each have their own flavor. Church steeples and large grain silos rising to the sky and in one case, we could see in the distance what appeared to be a gaint animal standing on the face of a knoll. This turned out to be a fiberglass statue of a dairy cow that measured 32' high and 51' long marking the location of a major dairy farm. Also, a major crop here appears to be Sunflowers. We passed acres of them in a number of locations along I94. We entered the Mountain Time Zone late in the day and arrived at our destination at 4:30 MDT. We are in Medora, ND surrounded by the "The Badlands". See the photo attached. Remember those western movies we grew up on?