North Dakota

Here are pictures and recollections of my first trip to North Dakota in six years. It was great seeing and visiting with aunts, uncles and cousins that I hadn't seen in years...and seeing my mother reconnect with her brothers, sisters, nieces and ...

We're heading up to visit Paul's aunt in the Minneapolis area. Then we're heading to North & South Dakota. None of us have been to ND before, plus Paul and Emily haven't seen Mt Rushmore: so off we go!

... ride home to Ottawa. Over the rockie mountains, across the border into Montana, through the states to Minnesota, then up into Canada again, north of Lake Superior, and across Ontario back home to Ottawa. That's the plan...and that's *all* of the plan. No ...

... for the cooler and ask a couple questions on my way to the drive thru. "Do you know of anything fun to do in North Dakota?" I asked the attendant, a different person from last night. "Oh my." She giggled. "I've only been to North once, and that was ...

... headed off on our adventure to North Dakota. We learned that there is a lot of very rural land between the Minneapolis area and North Dakota...and that the rural land continues once you get there. We made it almost uneventfully to Fargo. The only real ...

... Barb Everson Holly, Jim and Blaine Radtke How did Don and Loretta Stevenson come to be invited to a barbecue in Williston, North Dakota?   I'm glad you asked that question.   Don Bykonen was born and raised in Stanley, North Dakota, ...

... tune, we found ourselves on highway 89 heading north. After 50 miles or so, we joined highway 90 which headed east towards North Dakota, our next detonation. Five hours later ,we were still on the same road (but now Highway 94). 500 miles in the ...

... and crossed the Gassman Coulee on a high-level trestle. We enjoyed the country side scenery of green rolling hills.  Northern North Dakota has always seemed beautiful to me. Parts of North Dakota along the train route were rolling hills, plush with ...

... the man’s wife into the restroom to aid him further. So, new boots in possession, we headed down the road to North Dakota.  Driving was difficult due to high crosswinds. About 4:00 p.m., Mother Nature called again – this time in the ...