We left North Dakota on Wednesday morning and stopped briefly in Williston to get a rock chip in the windshield repaired. The nicest people work at Expert Auto Glass there in case you ever need that kind of help!
We saw fields of yellow blooming plants that we discovered are canola Who knew??
We drove west on US route 2 in Montana for hours until Google maps advised us to head north to reach our destination for the day: Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta Canada. The road quickly turned from pavement to dusty gravel. Very very dusty.
The road was rough and unfortunately the solar panel on the back of the camper came lose and bounced around on the ground a couple times before we were alerted by another driver. The panel seems to work fine thank goodness. My buddy Magyvered the attachment so that panel will not budge one inch. Tiny bungee cords to the rescue!!
We drove at least 50 miles on dusty, rough, isolated roads We crossed into Canada at the Aden crossing where the Canadian customs agent wondered why we ended up there instead of the main crossing in the area further west (and on paved roads.) We told him we blamed Google maps but that now we had a good story about our travels!
When we arrived at our very nice and blessedly shady campsite everything was coated in dust I started to understand the agony of the folks who lived through the dust bowl But the park here is lovely and we have enjoyed hiking among and learning about the hoodoos which are what the sandstone formations here are called More on those in the next blog!
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