Today we left home in the RV, got on I-94 West and made it as far as the Frontier Fort RV Park in Jamestown, North Dakota. Jamestown is home to the World's Largest Buffalo. I saw it from the Interstate and it was a huge...giant fiberglass buffalo.
TAYLOR AND TEDDY - Sept. 3
Traveling west on I-94 though the eastern farmland of N. Dakota and looking for something interesting besides fields of corn, and sunflowers, I got kind of excited when I spotted several bright red semi-trucks traveling east. The sides of the trailers were billboards for Taylor Swift's Red Tour. The trucks were headed to Fargo and then to St. Paul where Taylor would be performing her Red Tour concert over the weekend. The trucks were traveling in groups of 3 or 4, and we saw a total of 10. That's a lot of stage equipment!
We got to the Badlands of North Dakota, arriving in Medora to stay in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park for a few days.
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| Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam. |
The campsites are on a first come basis, and we were lucky to get a shaded site. It's hot, with the temps in the upper 90's. We are dry camping (roughing it) for the next few days, as there are no RV hook-ups in the Park. Generator use is allowed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. so we can run the air conditioner.
This evening we ate at the Pitchfork Steak Fondue. This is where a cowboy cook, puts a slab of steak on the end of a pitch fork, then plunges it into a huge vat of hot oil to cook it.
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| Give me a pitch fork and a tub of hot grease, and I'll cook y'all a steak. |
After the cowboy dinner, we walked over to the Burning Hills Amphitheatre where the lively Medora Musical is performed nightly. It was a perfect evening to sit under the stars to be entertained with the singing and dancing.
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| God Bless America! |
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| Singing and dancing. |
BULLY AND BOOM - Sept. 4
This morning Jim golfed with our campsite neighbors, Bob and Sue from Texas, at the beautiful and unique Bully Pulpit Golf Course. Since I saw the course 2 years ago, and only golf when I have to, I stayed at camp. At 8 a.m. I started the generator, it ran for about 4 minutes and quit. It's always something.
In the afternoon, Jim and I took a drive north to check out the Badlands in the Parks North Unit. We also wanted to see for ourselves what the oil boom in Williston looked like. After getting stuck in the hideous congestion at Watford City, about 50 miles south of Williston, we decided to turn around. Part of the highway was under construction and was jammed with semi-trucks, and white pick-up trucks heading to and from the oil fields. We saw hundreds and hundreds of RV's and trailers set up to house the thousands workers who have come from around the country to work the oil boom. I can only imagine the circus in Williston.
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