What is the deal with North Dakotans?
You are driving along the freeway and you see signs - “Live
Buffalo!!! Stop and See!!!!” You round the bend and there on top
of the hill is a huge herd of buffalo. As you get nearer you realize
that they are just metal cutouts standing on top of the hill. It is
not only buffalo, along the way we saw elk, boars, deer – all metal
standing in the middle of a field or under a tree. Very strange.
Today was more of a travel day. Did
stop at a rest stop which was rather unique in that it looked like a
gas station out of the 50's.
Stopped at the Lewis and Clark
Interpretive Center but just looked at the gift shop. It was late in
the day, tired, hungry and it just seemed like too much effort to
actually tour the place. More buffalo sculptures here.
Crossed over the Garrison Dam. We
crossed over a spillway first and thought we had crossed the dam.
The spillway was massive but it was only maybe a twentieth of the
size of the Garrison Dam. We have stopped at Lake Sakakawea State
Park(third largest man-made lake in the U.S.A.) and we are the only
campers here. There is electricity but the water hasn't been turned
on yet for campers. We are parked right on the water. The shore is
unique in that there is no sand, but all of these red flat rocks.
Great skipping rocks.
This is a wonderful park - the aloneness, the view, the birds. After two days of driving, it is good for the soul.
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