Monday, August 18, 2008

Day 63 – Medora to Bismarck ND – 134 miles

Still in North Dakota. We left Medora at 9:30 and drove across lots of rolling flat land with lots of sunflower fields. We arrived in Bismarck at 2:30 (we came into Central Time Zone!). After setting up at the KOA, we headed south to Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. It has two really interesting areas – the actual fort area which includes the home where Custer and his wife lived, and the Mandan On-A-Slant Indian Village.

We took a tour of the Custer house which was air-conditioned and interesting. Then we took a tour of the Mandan Village. The CCC rebuilt 5 of the earth lodges. They were really cool inside and there were lots of Indian artifacts. The also had a great visitors center museum. It was a good stop.

We grabbed barbecue on the way home and had a nice evening at the campground. I uploaded some more photos from today to the North Dakota link on the left.

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