Traveling through the Dakotas during the past week has been quite interesting. Far removed from bustling civilization, we've passed through lots of tiny towns with populations of 324, 406, or even less. Sometimes there's nothing more than a sign with the name of the town on it. We finally reached Aberdeen, SD last night, our biggest stop in over a week (over 24,000!), and we got a chance to sit down at a sports bar and watch stage 3 of the tour.
The landscape is a bit more tame than that of Glacier park... a lot of slow rolling hills and flatlands. We try to keep morale and amusement levels high by yelling at cows as we pass through, and I must say the cows in ND are a lot quicker to scare than the ones in SD. The people have been great, though. A few nights ago we got caught in the dark trying to make it to Hettinger, but fortunately we found an amazingly nice lady at a farm who cooked us dinner and even hooked us up with some delicious beef jerky.
We've gone almost 2000 miles now I think, and we're coming up on Minneapolis. That should be a fun stop and a good place to recharge. Our time in the remoteness of the Dakotas should be over within the next four or five days.
Updated Statistics:
times crashed: 6
bad jokes told: 344
mosquito bites: a lot.
That's it for now, more to come.
Chuck
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