Minot & Great Forks, North Dakota

After leaving Teddy Roosevelt NP, we headed north to pick up highway US 2 at Minot. We stayed the night just outside of Minot and decided to treat ourselves to dinner. We found a great little restaurant, 10 Main Street. Look it up if you come to town. Pris had roasted Elk loin and I had a Bison rib eye steak. Both were out of this world.

Wednesday we headed east on US 2. The road crews were putting oil and gravel on the road for about 30 miles. Yes, you guessed it, our windshield got hit by gravel two miles from the end of the paving. It put a chip in the windshield that promptly grew into a 3 foot crack. Pris called our emergency road service, told them the situation and got a referral to an auto glass store in Grand Forks. That is where we had intended to stay anyway. We took the RV by the store on Wednesday afternoon and made arrangements to have a replacement installed first thing Thursday morning. We were lucky that they had a replacement in stock.

For the last week the temperatures have been going up. Wednesday it got to about 95. This drove us into the air conditioning, not what we had intended. I remember the movie “Fargo” and the driving snowstorm scenes. Great Forks is 100miles north of Fargo, why can’t we have some of that cold now!