North Dakota

September 6th Day 19

Today we split up with Dan and Anona, we wer on different schedules and they were moving a little too fast for me. It was fun while it lasted. It was a hot day with a great wind. We stayed in Washburn, which was about 50 miles away. We stayed at Riverside park and Billy and I broke into the ship, the Souix Ferry, we make great pirates. The ship was on land and surrounded by a fence. We had marshmellows by the fire and as I was reading with the setting sun everything felt perfect. Well, until a cop showed up. Ha, it was fine we were just supossed to call the city and let them know we were having a fire(how on earth were we supossed to know that??!!) and he was nice to us.


September 7th Day 20

We rode to Gaarrison, ND today. We got a little lost trying to find Ft. Stevenson, the campground but all was well. We went 50 miles and the sun was shining. The park was really nice, there was a sign for Prarie Dog Town and I was very excited. Unfortunalty we never found any prarie dogs. There was a historic cannon from when the park used to be a Fort and it was made is Wisconsin! wahoo! The sky was clear all day except for when we were cleaning up dinner the sun stayed out and we got drizzled on for maybe ten minutes. We went to bed everything normal. At four am, we didnt know it was four, so sometime in the night we were awoken with heavy rain and tremendous wind. It started to blow our tent over on us. It was terrifing, I thought for sure we were going to wither a) suffocate or b) get blown off the cliff we were on into the river(still Missouri River). Niether happened. We got dressed and picked up the tent and ran to the bathroom, which wasnt that close. We were instantley soaked. We slept the next four hours in the womens bathroom and dryed our tshirts and sleeping bags with the hand dryer...our jeans and my sweatshirt were hopeless.


September 8th Day 21

So we woke up in a bathroom(crappy) and thats just about how the rest of the day went. Billy conned me into waking up only by the temptation of diner breakfast 4 miles away. So we packed up all the wetness and biked to town, dryed our clothes, ate and moved along. We braced ourselves for a late start(about noon instead of nine) and the 80 mile trip ahead. The wind blew hard in our faces, we climbed lots of hills and it rained. If there had been a town maybe we would have stopped but there wasnt anything until about 7 miles east of New Towne. We made it there a little after nine. The last thirteen miles of our trip were on hwy 23, busy and dark. It was cold and scary but we made it to Van Hook park in less than an hour, we rode fast and hard and arriving was quite the reward.

September 9th Day 22

Tpdau we wemt 60 miles, it was almost as hard as yesterday, we had sun but still hills and wind. We had coffee and each ate 700+ calories of coffee cake so we had a great start. We got to the Lewis and Clark State Park a little after eight where we got cola from the campground host, had hot showers and met some of the neighbors. My butt is so sore.