North Dakota

Hey, everybody!

After Glacier, we started heading for home. We stopped in Billings, Montana, where we visited some of Mom and Dad's friends, Jay and Catherine Conner, from their Montana days. Just a short way from Billings, we stopped at Pompey's Pillar. This is a big pillar of rock, containing the only physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trip-- William Clark's signature and date carved into the rock. (Click on the second picture from the top to get a better view.)

Just inside the North Dakota border is Theodore Roosevelt National Park. This area in the badlands of North Dakota was beautiful in its raw, undeveloped state, and was brimming with life, including bison, wild horses, and prairie dogs. Lots and lots and lots and LOTS of prairie dogs. Ansley and Mom loved these cute little.... barking rodents.

After this, we drove awhile through North Dakota. Talk about flat! Bridger saw the wheat fields and said, "Let's just build a hundred soccer fields!" Ha, ha. He also mentions how he wants to compulsively throw his frisbee just to see how far it will go. Mom and Dad say that they met a friend in Montana who was from ND. He said that he was fourteen before he realized that it doesn't really snow sideways; only in ND. When you see how flat it is and how far you can see, this isn't very surprising.

That's all for now. I'll write later!

Luke