Nothing says North Dakota like a cowboy riding a fish. We found this in Mobridge SD this morning.
We left Pierre after an actually pretty ok Hotel breakfast. One of the few well run, well looked after Days Inn. It's a crap shoot when you reserve these places. Trip Advisor helps and Google Maps will give you a rating, but sometimes it's a pretty crappy place, but not last night.
We tried to get as close to the river all day, which turned out to be easy. We found a small 2 lane road with no traffic (really, like almost none) called Rt1804 on the east side of the river and a companion Rt1806 on the west side. We stayed on the east side all day. What a treat. Some corn and soy and sorghum, but also a lot of sunflowers being grown. Huge fields of beautiful bright yellow sunflowers and a nice sunny day to go with it.
We noticed that the smoke was gone so we must be out of the way up here of the Canadian fires we keep hearing about. And the temperatures today were about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. The only tough thing was the last two hours when we picked up a pretty heavy breeze from the west which made for noisy helmets and threw us around on the road quite a bit. And wore us out. Again tonight we are not sore, but just tired. But no crazy hot stuff.
At Mobridge we snacked on the venison sausage that Greg gave us yesterday. Looks like that's our lunch the next couple days. Thanks Greg!!
We got to Bismark around 3:00 and decided to call it quits for the day. Lots of Hotels so we booked one (it's so easy these days), and then went searching for the elusive throttle lock for Dave's bike. We went to 3 different shops with no luck. But we met some great folks and kicked some tires so maybe we just have a good excuse to talk to motorcycle folks.
It took us back when the address of the hotel was Mandan ND. Lewis & Clark stayed the first winter in Mandan Village. There is a great interpretative center nearby that we will stop at tomorrow.
OK, another pretty darn good day.
Oh yea, the reason the route numbers are Rt1804 and Rt1806 is because the state named then after the years that Lewis and Clark traveled through here. Pretty cool!!
Odometer: 4636-4365=271 miles
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