Medora

No Hunting?! Damn, I think I could have bagged one of these.

It is Wednesday morning and I am sitting in a small cafe in Medora, ND. There are red and white checked table clothes, Skynyrd's Freebird is heard coming from the radio in the kitchen, there are 10 senior citizens, a Harley riding couple, and me. This is perfect.

I came to Medora on the way home to hike a couple trails and see the Medora musical. I went to the musical last night. The amphitheatre is built into a hillside just north of town. The musical is a good mix of country music and pride in North Dakota, Teddy Roosevelt and the U.S. The cast is made up of people from all over the country, but I felt the show was owned by a small town North Dakota 16 year old girl. She was definitely more talented than a number of the people around her.


There are thousands of these little oil pumps in the southern Canadian and the northern U.S. plains. An awful lot of resources out here are put into energy (oil, wind and biofuels) and food (everything from peas to beef). These wide open spaces are doing a lot to power and feed the rest of us. The picture isn't very clear. It's part of my 65 mph series.


Today looks questionable for weather. I am going to head out to Theodore Roosevelt National Park this morning to hike some trails. I hope the rain holds off. I am planning on staying here again this evening, but if the weather looks bad I might pack up and start heading east with the hopes of staying ahead of the weather. We'll see how it plays out.

I am camping at the Medora Campground. It has the best view of all the places I have stayed, and I can hear the Little Missouri River running just a few yards away. Oh yeah.... there are trains that run all night and the blow their horns. Other than that, it's great.


Time to run, but not before I take care of business.


Yesterday's Song of The Day:

• The Call - I still Believe

Thoughts/Leassons:

• There is a PGA in Canada, but it is the Potato Growers of Alberta.
• Apparently Bon Jovi is playing in Regina tonight and it's a big deal in all of Saskatchewan,
• Yes, Regina rhymes with Vagina. You think their sports teams get hassled?
• In the U.S., the radion station would be called Z99. In Canada it is Zed99.
• The emptiness of the plains results in a bigger sky.
• I had to buy gas in Canada in litres. I have no idea what my mpg's were up there.

That's all I have for right now. Time to hit the trails.

Tom