Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Roadtrip West & North July 28-August 4, 2020

Bill & I traveled with John & Pat Wilson to Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota & Illinois.

ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS in Janesville, Wisconsin












THE ENCHANTED HIGHWAY in Regent, North Dakota (Giant Metal Sculptures by artist Gary Gregg.)
**THE GEESE IN FLIGHT
**DEER CROSSING

**GRASSHOPPERS IN THE FIELD


**FISHERMAN'S DREAM

**PHEASANTS ON THE PRAIRIE

**TEDDY ROOSEVELT RIDES AGAIN
**THE TIN FAMILY



**WHIRLEY GIGS
It was fun to find these in fields covering 32 miles.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK in Medora, North Dakota

**THE BADLANDS

**WILD HORSES
**BISON



**PRAIRIE DOGS
**FORT PECK DAM near Glasgow, Montana  (This was what Bill wanted to see.  249 feet high and 21,432 feet long - one of the world's largest earthfill dams.  Bill enjoyed the film about the making of the dam.)  It was impossible to capture in picture.


DEVILS LAKE in North Dakota (covers 211,300 acres...no outlet...has risen over 29 feet since 1992)



LAKE SUPERIOR




ODDS AND ENDS

**ON THE ROAD AGAIN
**SUCH A SOOTHING SIGHT

 **DUSK FROM OUR ROOM in Duluth, Montana

**A BEAUTIFUL PROMISE

**I think Forrest Gump was here.

**SOUNDS OF THE SURF

**AMERICAN MADE GOODS (One of many, many closed businesses we saw along the way.  SAD!)

**SO MANY PRETTY FLOWERS
 I Loved These.  I'll have to ask Pat again what they are called.



3696 miles in a week.  Great time!

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