Lynn said let's go to the Louis & Clark place, it will only take an hour so we did, and we got back 8 hours later...we did Louis & Clark and then it only looked like a short little trip (couple inches on the map) to the North Dakota Bad Lands...we gave up after 2.5 hours of driving as we still had at least an hour to go. This is when the fun started as we found ourselves in the middle of the North Dakota oil explosion. No other way to describe it; trucks, big trucks everywhere, white pick-ups, all with equipment in the back filling every road...there must be more white pick-ups in North Dakota then in the rest of the US altogether. It is truly unreal the effect the oil fracking business is having on the state to the west of Minot...new pole barn and metal building construction and modular office buildings everywhere, oil well pumps going in every field, big trucks hauling the crude, excavation equipment, road construction and in the middle of this mess and activity was this old white van with two tourist from Michigan.
Lynn:
Even though we hadn't planned to, we spent a second day in North Dakota. Today was perfect weather; I hope not the last one like this. It is supposed to be 100 in Montana tomorrow. Randy left out the Scandinavian Heritage Park that we went to in the morning. Enjoyed the examples of Norwegian buildings from the 18th century.
And these pics are from the re-creation of Fort Mandan, where the Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1804-05. Lewis and Clark hauled 60 tons of goods with them on their expedition. I think that Randy was trying to best them.
Those chalets are adorable! I want to live in one.
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