This morning the sky over Williston, ND looks again a little like yesterday, cloudy, and with some having the potential of dropping their load on us. We pick up Hwy 2 and follow East to Minot, ND with the Fort Berthold Reservation to our right, and the Missouri River with Van Hook Arm and Lake Audubon. One thing we immediately recognize is that since we entered North Dakota, oil drilling / exploration has increased immensely, and it appears that everybody in this region just lives of that through machine jobs, heavy machinery sales and pipe and tank fabrication shops. Even the air smells oil and I figure if you're not in cattle, wheat, falafel or grass/hay, that's all you get up here. Some times we get some sprinkles from those dark grey clouds, but nothing to worry about, and we run them out very easily. Once again a day in the prairie where the scenery doesn't change too much, so we rake up miles and pass between Lake Alice and Devils Lake to our destination of the day of Grand Forks, MN. Once again a good day riding, and perhaps we make it to Lake Superior tomorrow, at least we shall get more interesting scenery by entering some state forests.
The other wealth of this region, North Dakota
Looks familiar, not much change today neither, Devils Lake below
"Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west." - Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
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