One for the Road

Normally, I would have gone to Canada for the month of August but with the border closed due to Coronavirus, I needed to fill some time. Since my future plans for visiting Montana only include the western mountain region, this was an unexpected opportunity to see the eastern portion, which is very similar to North Dakota except they grow beef cattle here instead of wheat. I stayed in five Montana towns in just over three weeks and found something surprising…

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BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA Continuing my attempt to avoid Coronavirus, I arrived in Bismarck on August 3 and stayed a week at the KOA there. North Dakota is a very large state that pretty much all looks the same—wheat and corn fields—with some sunflowers thrown in just to break up the monotony. But for those who are curious enough to look beyond the fields that flank the interstate, there is some wonderful history here as well as interesting geology on the…

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