Travels of Geo Nova

We are so grateful we left Marquette when we did because the next day the rains came and the roads we had just passes hours earlier flooded so we would have been delayed.

We left Two Harbors in the midsts of Grandma’s marathon. Thankfully we found out about it as we arrived and planned how to avoid the delays. We took back roads, some dirt but traveled on. Even though we locked the TV and fridge there were issues when we stopped. Cleaning up salad dressing and other spills were ok because we were grateful that the beets were on the floor and still intact! After cleaning up the mess and getting lunch onward we traveled through MN into ND.

We traveled on to Valley City. Which turned out to be a gem. We stayed at the city park. Once settled in we took a walk to get a few things at the local supermarket. As we walked there the entire downtown was closed off because of a car show. What a great find. Luckily we got there about an hour before it broke up. They had just started announcing prizes. This is one of the great things about traveling off of the interstates.

We left Valley City to head to Cross Ranch State Park which is north of Bismarck. Here we pick up some of Louise & Clark’s travels up the Missouri River. Our campsite is a stones throw from the Missouri River. We went to Knife River Indian Villages National Historic site. Here the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians had their summer and winter homes. We then went to Lewis & Clark interpretive center and Fort Mandan. Fort Mandan is now somewhere in the Missouri River but they have built an exact replica from the journals that were kept. The corps of discovery stayed here 156 days. That winter they experienced temperatures in the minus 40s.

Birding has been great, we have been able to add several new birds to our life list. David continues to take hundreds of pictures.

We are on the road tomorrow heading to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.