Wednesday August 18, 2010. Left Williston, ND at around 8:45. We lost another hour and are now on the same time as Illinois. We stayed in the Walmart lot in Williston last night and drove down to McDonalds to use their WIFI. For whatever reason, they closed at 9:00pm so we did not make it there before they closed. Tried to find WIFI elsewhere without any luck. We have been without Internet now for three days, which for me seems like a lifetime!
The drive today was a little more interesting as the countryside was rather pretty. A few hills and a lot of lakes, rivers and streams here and there. When we left Williston, we saw oil drilling rigs everywhere. The countryside was pretty flat for about 50-70 miles and at times you could see two or three drilling rigs set up across the landscape. There were also many working wells all around as well, so it seems to be a big oil area. As we continued driving, the landscape took on a few hills and curves and the crops in the field all are very scenic--at least something more to look at than hay bales, however, there were a great percentage of those as well.We have seen numerous sunflower fields starting in the eastern part of Saskatchewan and saw a lot of them today driving across North Dakota.
We tried to find a decent campground to stay at tonight so I could do some laundry but everything we found with sewer was either too far or not far enough that we wanted to give up for the day. We stopped at the Flying J in Fargo and fueled up and dumped our holding tanks so we are good to go. I looked for a Walmart on our route but there isn't one in any town in ND or SD nearby. We ended up stopping in a little -- that is LITTLE town and found a Casino--which is also LITTLE. Larry went in to ask if we could park in their lot tonight and they said yes. So we pulled to the back of the lot and set up home for the night. Looking around the place we stopped could be a little 'seedy' so hope we make it tonight without being robbed or mugged. Just to make sure Larry again got out his gun and loaded it in case we have unwanted visitors during the night. The casino is open all night so who knows what we might encounter. We have been putting in some pretty high mileage days since we started home. We have been on the road today for ten hours with only two short stops. It isn't so bad in the motor home when you can get up and walk around, eat and have the bathroom. When we stopped today we had driven about 500 miles. Just that much closer to home!!!
The weather was very pleasant today the few times we were out of the RV. We made a stop at a rest stop 50 miles before Fargo and got out to walk around a while. We lost our thermometer that we had stuck on the outside window so don't know what the temp was, probably 70 degrees. Larry cleaned the windshield as the bug guts were really thick--almost to the point that you couldn't see to drive. We clean the windshield at least two times daily . We must have depleted the bug population by half as we travel across each area.
Talked to Leslie today and she said the weather had cooled down some in the past few days, so that is a good thing!!! I'm really not looking forward to the hot weather when we get back to Illinois. We have a lot of work to get done when we get home. One thing is to clean the RV inside and outside and I'm sure we have weeds taller than the roof at home. None of this will be enjoyable but if the weather is hot, it probably just won't get done by me!
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