October 30, 2006

WINTER HAS COME TO THE PRAIRIES. Within six hours with the north wind the geese have left and I must drive to meet Ellen in North Dakota.

The border crossing back into the States is smooth and it is good to be home after being away for six weeks. The weather is intermittent snow but like the geese I have tail wind and the Camper moves at a steady clip. I move down to Fort Mandan and after they try and hit me up for an absurd entrance fee, I find that the site isn't close to where Lewis and Clark spent their winter on the Missouri. The site was flooded out hundreds of years ago.