May 27, 2012

ND Road Trip Part 2

Dave and Deb stayed in Zeller's 5th wheel and we stayed in the house.  They "said" they had been wanting to try out their spare bed to see if it was good.  Hmmmm!  I hope that was right we sure got a good night's sleep in theirs.  Ken was exhausted from the trip and hurting pretty bad - so I'm glad he slept well.  It has been so cold "up north" he hasn't gotten to enjoy much yet. :(

Anyhow we drove back to Bismark for the funeral.  We should have left earlier as Dave was "hurrying" down the road when he got stopped.  I hurried and got my phone ready to call Whitney (legal owner) if we ran into trouble.  Thank goodness she had given me the new insurance card to put in!  Anyway she was a very nice officer and after ascertaining we had the right to be in a vehicle non of us owned we asked where the church was.  :)  Yup!  About 400 yd ahead of us and "turn left".  It was a beautiful memorial with N/L's daughter Christy singing.  We  were all glad we had made the effort to come and represent our EB contingency.   

After lunch at the church we left Zeller's to head back east.  We took a different road (I think) and decided to go exploring just like Lewis and Clark.  :)  So we stopeed at the:

North Dakota Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center.
Here are the pics that "tripped my crank".  It IS a great place and was about a 9 on my "does it compare to Baker City Oregon's Oregon Trail Interpretative Center" meter.


BEADING???  


YUK!

I think maybe Dave wants to take it with us.  Dave is seldom too hot.


The logger inspects the wood......








It also has some pretty good scuptures.
More BEADS!


The front entrance.





Back in the van we went and headed on to Garrison Dam.  Oops! More tourist stuff on the left.
(Conversation: "Ken, what's the name of that Fort we visited in ND?  (silence).............uhhhhh shoot, I can't remember."   "Well, spit!!! Neither can I!")

Thus here is the cool fort we visited.......







His head is CLOSE to the roof!  Knowledgeable tour guide.













Onward we traveled in search of Garrison Dam! We all saw picutres of this spillway working near capacity in summer
2012 around the same time.....
Linda's picture from 2011.  



The Missouri River seems pretty calm this year.

A huge fish hatchery,.

And back to Hazen we went.  We toured town, had pizza and went to the Z's to wait and kick some Golf butt!












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