Knights 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.

First of all, Medora is in the middle of nowhere. It is also a very beautiful spot in the Badlands of North Dakota. Without the Theodore Roosevelt NP, not sure it would still be in existence.

Someone decided this would be a great place for a high end daily fee golf course. The Bully Pulpit golf course can be played individually ($85) or part of a trilogy of courses in North Dakota for $140. One course is in ...

... 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.

... even our towing is covered ! Well, we all have been swimming, reading, cleaning out the motorhome and playing ! I have actually been paying he kids to do simple jobs as an excuse to give them money for pinball and ice cream ! I am talking 50 cents a job ! They can't believe their luck ! Morgan can't believe her luck because she is sleeping in the 2 person tent outside by herself - by choice ...

... points of interest in North Dakota were all the "world's largest" along side the road.  We saw the world's largest metal sculpture, Holstein cow, and buffalo.  We reached Minnesota around 7:00, we had lost another hour to central time, and decided to drive on until it got dark enough for the glare of oncoming headlights on the bug-splatter made it unsafe to drive, which was around 9:30.

I had a weekend off, and drove from Bismarck, ND, through some of the North Dakota badlands, across the Lake Sakajawea bridge at New Town, ND, to Williston, to visit my brother Paul and his family.

On the way out of town, I saw people playing Sandbar Golf in the ...

... spud is in Idaho? I'm not sure how big it is because Brian wouldn't let me stop. He's trying to convince me that it's not real, but I can't handle the heartbreak and I won't believe it! We drove through parts of Yellowstone, even taking some breaks to enjoy all the pretty nature. We soon ...

... of the day between going across the plains and through the mountain passes we have managed to pick up a few geocaches for some brake's. We stopped at Pompey's Pillar for a virtual geocache and an earthcache. We are doing some haul butt driving right now in order to get to the motel/hotel at a decent time frame, unlike last night. Thats what happens when you change 2 time zones in a day. The first time zone change was when we stepped off the Alaska ...

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.