Day 30

Day 30 has us settling into returning home mode versus vacation mode, which will shorten the blog considerably.  Our plans for today was to travel from Spearfish, SD to Bismarck, ND.  I still opted for secondary highways instead of hopping on the Interstate although I'm not sure that was the best choice for today.  We really saw nothing out of the ordinary and while we avoided Interstate traffic we also traveled on some fairly poor roads as well.

We hit a traffic jam early with traffic backed up two vehicles! in Newell, SD while this tractor made it's way down Main St.

This was no surprise to this prairie boy but figured I'd show what we saw a lot of today to some of the blog followers who possibly aren't familiar with the Dakota's.  We went likely close to 100 miles at one point with little more than a slight sweeper of a turn one way or another.

The second last border crossing of our trip.

Thousands of acres available and all the cattle is wedged into this one corner.  Not sure if this is related to the severe weather that blew through the area last night but it was like this in almost every pasture we passed today.

Canola fields always give the prairies a colorful look.

Mileage covered today was 496.8 km giving us a trip total of 9569.2 km.