Doing a little catch up tonight.  I wasn't able to post any pictures the other evening as wi-fi was not available.

Update on wildlife:
   several more deer, quite a few pheasants, pelicans, all kinds of ducks and waterfowl, white long legged shore birds, numerous small critters like chipmunks

Finally, I got a picture of an animal!  These are pelicans in Minnesota in one of the many marshy areas.  Next on my bucket list is a pheasant!

We spent one night in Casselton. North Dakota with Evergreen B & B members LeRoy and Dora Spilde.  Many thanks for an enjoyable evening visit.

Storm clouds out in the distance one afternoon in North Dakota.

Staying off the freeways sometimes leads to some "adventures".  This was one of the roads that we ended up on.  It had rained really hard in the area for a couple of days.

Chugging along in the mud.

After slogging though several muddy areas, we came to this puddle and the road kind of petered out. We turned around and went right back through all those same mud holes back to the other road and found another way - longer but better roads.

We spotted quite a collection of old cars in someone's field in North Dakota.  We stopped but no one was at home.  Would liked to have talked to the fellow that owned all of these.

More cars.

And more cars!  There were more in other fields.  Looked like a Hershey car corral.

We spent last night with Evergreen B & B members Karen and Jim Bonnet in Bismarck, North Dakota.  They live out in the country and have a beautiful yard and garden.  They recommended that we visit Medora, North Dakota, an area that President Theodore Roosevelt lived in at one time and was the inspiration for his drive to protect areas as national parks for all to enjoy.

Coming into Medora, at least on the backroads we traveled, you enter through the North Dakota Badlands.  Amazing rock formations, buttes and scenery.

  
More badlands, much of the area is open grazing.

More badlands scenery.