Lisa
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Ft. Lincoln State Park near Bismarck, ND
State parks in North Dakota continue to impress us. They have nicely laid-out campgrounds, well-maintained/mowed trails, and very clean bathrooms with great showers. This park has recreated three areas: the Mandan village on a slope near the river, the calvary buildings in a field near the Missouri River/park entrance and the infantry buildings up on…
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Bismarck and General Sibley Park
Since we are in the Capitol city of North Dakota, we thought we’d visit the capitol grounds, and just happened to run into the 49th annual Capital A’Fair. We walked among the many, many vendors and ate kettle corn and wood-fired pizza for lunch. The capitol building here is a modern structure with a huge…
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Sunny Hike in Makoshika State Park, MT
Bright sunshine greeted us this morning, and was very welcome after our rainy day yesterday. We drove up to the Cap Rock trail where we could park. The trail looked muddy, but we really wanted to see the natural bridge. Tony stepped on a short slope with wet bentonite clay and did a cool 180-degree…
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Rainy Day Hike in Makoshika State Park, MT
Thankfully we didn’t have far to travel today to get to Makoshika State Park. It was raining as we left the winery, it was raining while we were driving, and it continued to rain all afternoon and into the evening at our new spot. We put on ponchos to walk a trail that is like…
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Montana Grapes and Fruit = Montana Wines
With one more day of hot weather in the Medora area, we opted to drive into Montana and use our Harvest Host membership to stay at the Tongue River Winery in Miles City, MT. Our host, Bob and his wife Marilyn started their vineyard in 2005 to have something to do in retirement. Bob began…
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Park and Town Hiking Vistas
Medora is here because of Teddy Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores and Harold Schafer and the many volunteers that keep the town’s tourists happy. We did a little sightseeing this morning, and one volunteer explained how the town with a population of 121 can host the summer influx of visitors that makes it North…
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Petrified Wood and Wallows
A half-hour drive on a dirt road was the first part of our trek to see the petrified “forest” here in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The final road to the parking lot has big ruts and would be a mess after rainfall. We walked through rolling hills prairie, badlands outcropping with the petrified wood, and…
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Mustang and Bison Encounter in Theodore Roosevelt National Park
After work (Tony) and laundry (Lisa) and a bit of rain, we headed into Theodore Roosevelt National Park for some hiking adventures. We started at the Peaceful Valley Ranch to walk a mile to the Jones Creek Trail. This was a CCC connection trail that Tony said meant Cruddy, Crummy Creek here because that was…
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Travel to Theodore Roosevelt National Park
The US only has one national park named after a person. Theodore Roosevelt loved this part of North Dakota and had a ranch here for years. We will hike in the park tomorrow. We traveled from Jamestown to Medora—straight shot west on I-94.
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Missile Silos and Buffalos
We had a lovely morning walk before leaving Ft. Ransom State Park. What would the pioneers think about renting a night’s stay in a wagon with A/C??? We then did the tourist thing today, and toured the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site run by the State Historical Society of North Dakota near Cooperstown, ND and…