Howard Johnson Inn Fargo Nd

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... along side of it. It was a great place to explore local crafts !! The kids even fed some bison that they had here as pets really. We loved visiting Medora which was a town created by a young french Marquis in the hopes of becoming a beef baron and meat packer with exclusive rights to new york city. He built the meat plant and a beautiful chateau for his young New York bride but it ended in tragedy as he was accused of killing a man and everything fell ...

... we head to the Lakes in the Brainerd, MN. area. Thanks for all your postings. I will add more about our short visit to Rushmore and our wonderful time at my Aunt Silvia's farm. The girls, and especially I, LOVED it there. I just wanted to let you all know we are safe and sound, despite being without any cell phone service until midnight, when it was too late to return any calls. Hugs to everyone. Time for some home made blueberry pancakes and zucchini bread.

... there would be no Bison left that he aimed to kill one and take it home for everyone to see ( ha, ha, the irony!). We think he may be our favorite President if people really have favs.

We then headed East, busted through Bismarck (the capital of ND) to the eastern border and the town of Fargo. Fargo is a nice town with beautiful recreation areas and a multicultural feel that we ...

... 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 ...

... back of it. It was all used on the Mesabe range for hauling iron ore from the iron range in northern Minnesota for many years. What a beautiful engine...ok I'm getting carried away here.

On down the road we went for about 48 miles on US-2 and then we took the exit onto SR-200 west. This route takes more directly across Minnesota. If we had stayed on US-2 we would continue to travel in a northwesterly direction to Bemidji then have to make some big ...

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 ...

... of missing my alarm. But I woke up as planned at 6:30 a.m. to give myself enough time to get to the station, collect my luggage tags, and stand in line for the bus. I got to the bus depot at 7:00 a.m. only to be told by the ticket agent that my bus wasn't leaving until 9:15 a.m., and that they'd actually changed the schedule two weeks ago (which happens to be before I purchased my ticket). It would have been nice to get notice of this ...

... having to constantly tell people over Christmas break about my trip, my parents finally buying a ticket to come visit me in March, and getting all of my vaccinations yesterday. It seems like everything I am doing brings my mind back to leaving no matter how hard I try to think about other things. In attempts to take my mind off it, I am heading to my place in Red Lodge, MT next week to do some skiing and hiking through Yellowstone.

... gym. Seats were only on the sides but they went the length of a football field (the college team plays inside) and went up a good 50+ rows. So needless to say it was larger than a typical arena. Radison was in the "downtown" but was not near the college or stadium. We were able to take a bus since cabs were very rare. Don't expect much in the form of nightlife nearby.