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... Bison, wild horses and prairie dog towns ! One bull bison was right on the road and it was a little scary. Morgan was saying "its ok mom, just go wide and keep going!" The younger kids completed their junior ranger program here as well so that was fun ! We enjoyed exploring the shops of the town and went to the cowboy hall of fame ! Coralyn has a new cowboy boyfriend who is the best kind of boyfriend ! We love that he is cardboard and I love him as a son ...

Good morning to all you followers. We made it to my sister Heather's house in Moorhead, MN. We drove all through the night and got here about 5am. It was good driving, all the girls slept. We drove over 500 miles over country roads from my Aunt's farm in Union Center, SD, where we left around 9pm and after a wonderful dinner and visit. More on that later. I just wanted to let you know we are safe and sound and not getting back into a car until tomorrow morning ...

... it bolted off like crazy, cool!

Roosevelt National Park is pretty amazing, it highlights the conservation efforts of President Roosevelt, his life story and even contains one of the cabins he lived in when he visited and hunted in North Dakota. Roosevelt was pretty much responsible for saving the Bison from extinction although when he first arrived in the area he was so worried ...

... We drove all the way through Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota, about 500 miles. Minnesota has a lot of marginal land with deciduous trees, mostly poplar. In fact we saw a tree farm planted in small poplars. The last hundred miles was more open with fields of corn, wheat, soy beans and tobacco. We also saw several poultry farms and there were a lot of horse trailers ...

... good scenic ride today all the way across Minnesota. The only bad thing was we had a strong head wind to northwest side wind all the way today so the fuel consumption was kicked up. If we had the 5th wheel hooked up we would have stopped right away today and tried again tomorrow. Oh well, we got here and now its time to rest up for tomorrow.

We will have a 8+ hour day tomorrow as we will go all the way across North Dakota and stop in Miles City, MT.

We didn't actually leave Olathe until just before noon. We hit mile zero of I-29 coming out of downtown KC and just trucked up on to Omaha by late afternoon. We stopped at the Union Pacific Railroad Museum and spent about an hour looking a all kinds of historical stuff they had collected there. The guy at the desk told me there was a train simulator upstairs and I had to keep it on the tracks. Turns out it was actually just a bunch of TVs that played a video loop and a dummy control panel ...

... They also don't have a map of the city, which is strange, but I'll figure out directions in the morning. It's bizarre how absolutely exhausted you can be after a day spent sitting on a bus. All I want to do now is sleep. This quick traveling pace is actually starting to wear me out - it doesn't give me much time to relax because I'm constantly moving onto the next town (which is why I generally prefer not to travel this way). But I knew it ...

our luck with the wind still hasn't changed... as we woke up this morning, we lamented the fact that we've only gotten one day of the prevailing winds in the last week. we do feel fortunate, though, because that's about as bad as our weather luck has been. being wet on the bike would be much more uncomfortable than working a bit harder, even if it's easy to forget that when the wind really gets going. today the wind was having a little laugh at ...

... book and told me to join them. J & J were from Minneapolis, and had visited the HoDo several times. Upon hearing it was my first time, they proceeded to give me a list of things to do that would occupy me longer than my stay. The other couple sitting in the area joined in the conversation as well. It turns out we were all travelers, although I was the least traveled of everyone. Over the next hour we shared travel stories that covered all ...