We Should've Stayed in Bismarck

We drove all day first through snow (yes, snow on the first of May! global warming isn't rearing it's ugly face on the range), then through rain, then through terribly high winds that often didn't allow the truck to get above 55 mph. It was somewhat better than we expected--we had heard weather reports of up to a foot of snow for today--but that apparently was all south of here (so it's a good thing we took I-94 instead of I-90).

It was a long day of driving. Still, the boys did very well. In retrospect, we should have tried to find a hotel in Bismarck instead of going the next 100 miles to Jamestown, North Dakota (home of Louis Lamour and a white bison). But I wasn't aware of how late it was when we had supper in Bismarck, and Beth thought I was adamant about getting to the hotel we had booked in Jamestown. It was after 10pm when we got checked in. But we'll stay a little longer in the morning and use the pool. Tomorrow's trip shouldn't be very long. We'll probably stay with my sister and her husband tomorrow night and then find our apartment and unload on Saturday.

I'm ready to be there. It's been a long trip--and we haven't had the luxury of time or money to make stops at all the fun places along the way.

Oh, and our truck is a diesel. Diesel fuel has been almost a dollar higher than unleaded fuel. Thankfully, it's dropped a lot as we've headed east. I hate to think what a tankful would have cost in Canada. It was somewhere around $4.75 a gallon in western Washington. The last spot I saw had it for $4.19. But it doesn't help that we have to fill up that AND the car.

Sorry that there's no pictures--the camera batteries are almost dead (and we're not sure where the recharger is) and we haven't studied up on how to download pictures off of our cell phones yet.