Having reached the Lower 48, it was like beginning a new journey: the journey HOME! We figured we still have 2 weeks of our “adventure” left. So, we set out Sunday morning, bright and early, ready to explore some new places/states. Montana being first on the list.
The roads in north eastern Montana were long and seemingly endless. The scenery was quite boring at first, but then it became very interesting. Very strange looking land masses and stone formations. Later, I read that the area we traveled through was called the Hell Creek Formation, where they have been able to extract evidence that a gigantic meteorite or asteroid struck the earth 65 million years ago. Many dinosaur fossils, including triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex have been found in this area. (pics attached)
We found a campground on Fort Peck Lake in Fort Peck, MT on Sunday night and decided to take a break from the road and unwind a little. We stayed there Sunday and Monday nights.
On Tuesday, the 18th, we hit the road again. We finished Montana and started with North Dakota. Not a lot to gawk at along the North Dakota highways. Pretty flat country with a lot of grain fields. And the road construction….arggghhh!! There were stretches 13 miles long where the road was under repair. We asked one road construction worker how they could get away with such long stretches. She said, “I don’t know, but, I get asked that a LOT!” (Thank god for books on compact discs or I could die of boredom out here on the road!)
We stayed in a campground on Devils Lake in North Dakota Tuesday night – the largest natural lake in ND. Another long, 9 hour day on the road! We were able to unwind at our campsite with a beautiful sunset, tho’. (pic attached)
The roads in north eastern Montana were long and seemingly endless. The scenery was quite boring at first, but then it became very interesting. Very strange looking land masses and stone formations. Later, I read that the area we traveled through was called the Hell Creek Formation, where they have been able to extract evidence that a gigantic meteorite or asteroid struck the earth 65 million years ago. Many dinosaur fossils, including triceratops and tyrannosaurus rex have been found in this area. (pics attached)
We found a campground on Fort Peck Lake in Fort Peck, MT on Sunday night and decided to take a break from the road and unwind a little. We stayed there Sunday and Monday nights.
On Tuesday, the 18th, we hit the road again. We finished Montana and started with North Dakota. Not a lot to gawk at along the North Dakota highways. Pretty flat country with a lot of grain fields. And the road construction….arggghhh!! There were stretches 13 miles long where the road was under repair. We asked one road construction worker how they could get away with such long stretches. She said, “I don’t know, but, I get asked that a LOT!” (Thank god for books on compact discs or I could die of boredom out here on the road!)
We stayed in a campground on Devils Lake in North Dakota Tuesday night – the largest natural lake in ND. Another long, 9 hour day on the road! We were able to unwind at our campsite with a beautiful sunset, tho’. (pic attached)
Happy Birthday brotha’ Dave!!
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