Left Glendive about 8:30 and another hot hot day...supposed to get to maybe 105 today!!! We sure did not miss the hot weather in AK and Canada!!! In fact I think we were glad to be in the truck and out of the RV b/c in the RV we only had flannel sheets to sleep on and that would have been hot! Of course we would run the a/c, but still.....It does cool off a great deal at night....down in 60s so mornings and evenings aren't too bad.
At one gas station there was a flatbed truck in front of us w/ a St. Bernard lying in the back....it was a rather large male and long haired. I felt sorry for him in the hot weather. He was a gorgeous dog and made us miss our Brandy!
Just inside the North Dakota border is Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It is a rather interesting park...was TR's western ranch. We drove in for several miles until we came to the loop road...We stopped at several lookouts and along the river. It was very interesting and a nice place, but it was still a very hot day and being a NP, we could not take the dogs anywhere and it was too hot to leave them in the car. It is noted for its wild mustangs and we saw some of the wild horses and also buffalo. Because of the heat and other considerations we opted not to drive the loop road as we felt we had seen enough. There was another entrance to the park a couple of miles down the road and we stopped there as well It was a "painted canyon" and although it was pretty, the colors were not terribly vivid. Some pinks, greens and grays on the bentonite hills. There were several areas in the park that were reminiscent of the Badlands but not on as grand a scale. Of course we got a park stamp here as well.
The countryside in ND is rolling w/ lots of wheat and pastureland. It was very pretty, just not spectacular. One of the more interesting exits was "Home on the Range". We just had to see what was there so we took it. Turns out it is a boy's town type of ranch community for troubled youth.
Decided to leave the interstate (I-94) and take Hwy. 85 and 12 through the SW corner of ND and diagonally through South Dakota. Lots of road construction and the road was not great. It was getting late and we started looking for a place to stay. We were close to Minnesota and since I had never been there we drove to Ortonville, but could not find a hotel that would take dogs so we backtracked into SD and found a place in Watertown. By this time it was about 9:30 p.m. and we were really tired!
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