Saturday, August 23, 2025 All Part of the Adventure

 

Saturday, August 23, 2025 All Part of the Adventure

I like to look out windows.  Sometimes, they are covered and I have to stare at my humans to uncover them.  There are two of my people running around.  They don’t appear to have their own humans.  I will not allow them to muscle in on my humans.

It got quite chilly last night.  I actually needed a blanket.  It is breezy and cloudy, much like yesterday morning.  We did our morning walk up at Frontier Village.  It is only a few hundred steps from our campground.  They advertise the worlds largest buffalo.  This came about in 1959.  They had just finished I94 and wanted something to draw attention.  Thus, Big Thunder was developed.  A huge monstrosity of a bison that you can see from the freeway.  There are live buffalo roaming, we saw them yesterday from the freeway.  But from the village where they are touted, we never did see them.  They have lots of warning signs about the beasts.

We readied Artie for her next adventure.  Looking at the map, we thought we would explore areas around the Missouri River.  We are headed to the area around Lentin, which is about 60 miles south of Bismarck.  This is where we set out for the other day, before the Great Blow Job Sequel of 2025, so we will try again.  It is only 130 miles so it should be easy… till it isn’t.

Taking I94 west was fine, till we got to the exit to hwy. 83 south.  There was all sorts of major construction, the overpass was closed.  The detour signs were extremely confusing and we must have missed the most important one… We ended up on a farm road… going north… with nowhere to turn around.  Crap…  Looking at the map, we are going to have to go 20 miles north, then turn east for 18 miles, then south again 20 miles, then east on I94 to Hwy 3.  So, roughly a 60 mile detour.  At least, the countryside was beautiful.

If you have never been to the Midwest, it may be difficult to recognize the enormity of our agriculture.  Bazillions of miles of crops that not only feed our country, but people around the world.  For me, these farmers are my heroes.  What they do dwarfs all other industries.  With the blue skies and puffy clouds, the crop fields look stunning.  It is so green, except for my sunflowers!

Zigzagging right and left, we finally end up in Lentin.  We stop to fuel up, and a man runs up to us telling us we are dragging something under the rig.  Yep… for who knows how long, the tube that holds (correction… held) one of our sewer hoses had dropped on one end and was dragging.  It knocked our exhaust pipe loose, but did not break it.  Spouse to the rescue…  he cut away the damaged tube, and did a zip tie/metal hanger repair of the exhaust pipe.  Will it ever end?  Fortunately, we have another sewer hose so no need to panic.

Can we finally get to where we are going?  We know of an RV park towards the Missouri River, but it turned out to be for seasonal rentals only – no overnighters.  But they recommended a spot down the hill…  Oh my this was a fabulous recommendation!  We pull into Beaver Creek Recreation Area.  It is on Lake Oahe, which is a large lake fed by the Missouri River. Oh how I wish we had a boat to explore this area.   The Camp Host said there were sites available, but we have to book online…  Reservation Hell once again.  It is really hard to get online when there is no internet service.  He told us of some hot spots and we were able to get a fabulous site overlooking the lake.  It has electricity.  The sites along the lake here are odd.  The electricity box is on the wrong side of the site.  We pulled in the wrong way so we could best enjoy the view.  And there is hardly anybody here!  The camp host said Labor Day is totally booked tho.

So we will spend two nights here ($22 total for 2 nights with electricity).  Killer views… We don’t do much research when we travel.  We essentially look at a map and say ‘let’s go there.’  This place is a sure winner!