Westward we go!

Well we barely got home from Ely and the peeps started packing up the little house - this summer vacationing can be exhausting!There was a lot of lawn mowing and laundry washing and then we were off!
We hit the road across MN through some places I had never seen ( Like Staples for example and Brainerd and Moorhead; how could I have lived so long in MN and missed these places!) Our first day was really long and we camped in a place just outside of Bismark ND, called A Prairie Breeze RV Camp in Menoken. We had a big rain that night and then a BIG wind came through about 1am which shook the trailer really hard and made us all nervous- good thing we hadn't unhooked from the big car or we may have blown away -the prairie just doesn't have anywhere for the wind to stop.

The next day we drove the rest of the way across N Dakota - there is just a lot of nothing for miles - we did however see the worlds largest fiberglass cow - you can see it for miles from the interstate. We also saw lots of evidence of the major flooding happening out here - including some spots on the interstate that had big barriers to hold back the water and pumps going to keep one lane open.

The high point of ND was our drive through Theodore Roosevelt National Park, where we had a nice picnic and saw some prairie dogs who liked to hug a lot (there are pics we will put up of that!) That night we stayed in Hardin, Wyoming at the Grand View campground - saw some beautiful skies which we all sat outside and watched for most of the evening.

Well I'll try to write more tomorrow about our adventure.