Best Western the Jordan Inn Glendive

I drove over to Teddy Roosevelt National Park, near Mandan, and drove around the loop. This is the time of year when it has the most color. It was interesting to me to see the same places I saw last April, when it was winter. Quite a difference. I enjoyed watching the cute, fat prairie dogs. They whistled their alarms when they saw me and the air was filled with the sound of their whistles. Saw the bison, and one wild mustang.

... capital in Bismarck and the other is in Ray (down a dirt road and even more remote). As they say, in for a penny-in for a pound. The first two courses I played were very nice but nothing really special. Everyone had said 'Oh yea, but wait till you get to Bully Pulpit, the views are spectacular. They were correct.

The photos were the best I could do in between hitting the little white ball and oohing and ahhing

... mammals and songbirds. Conservation increasingly became one of Roosevelt's major concerns. When he became President in 1901, Roosevelt pursued this interest in natural history by establishing the U.S. Forest Service and by signing the 1906 Antiquities Act under which he proclaimed 18 national monuments. He also got Congressional approval for the establishment of five ...

Here's some photos along the drive from Montana to Wisconsin. The buffalo was not staged, he was gone right after I took the picture. A guy at the park suggested I take a short hike down into the valley, I'm really glad I did. It was beautiful.

... would stall. This was a new thing as it wasn't the sound we heard before in the last town but how blessed we are that once again all of our needs are taken care of and we have this great KOA to stay in with a wonderful pool and a store ! We were not able to get into the service station for 4 days as it is Friday and Monday is booked ! I called my AAA and they can tow us on Tuesday morning ...

After finding the the restrooms at the rest stop where we had slept were locked at 5AM, we got back on the road in earnest and by 10:30AM we had made it to Glendive, just about 35 miles from North Dakota.  We were making good time and were in need of a stretch and a short walk, so we checked out Makoshika State Park, which was really cool!  The geology was amazing; we felt like we had ...

... of the Missouri River. Never heard of that before I came to Bismarck. Never seen it before.

I drove through the Killdeer Mountains (only North Dakota would call these hills "mountains"!) and through some of the beautiful badlands of North Dakota.

Day 1 (August 31) The car was PACKED and ready to go by 8:30 and with Brian's baby(his bike) strapped on the back, the three of us were ready to hit the road! We were soon in Idaho admiring the scenery and a new view of the Tetons from the other side. Who would have guessed, but the World's ...

... of go through the mountains, enough to get the ears acting up if you are prone to ear problems, like some I know, but would you really expect an interstate to run through Glacier National Park. No, having been there, there is absolutely no way an interstate could run through Glacier, Yellowstone or the Tetons, all of which are in this area we are diving through today. The interstate is splitting the parks and sticking to the low passes and the ...

Not much to say here I drove from Moorhead to Glendive and bucked the wind the whole time got terible MPG's. I am at home for a couple days then back to moorhead with the fam to pack more then on the train to be with K8er and her fam for a day then to LA.