Today was our first major day of touring. Not much driving today. The theme for today was: when is it going to rain? All of our activities today were outside, so rain was going to make a big difference on how everything went. All of our morning and afternoon were spent at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. This is a national park that I have not heard of much. It is also known as the North Dakota Badlands. I have been to the South Dakota Badlands several times. Pa...

So we decided to go to our hotel, the Rough Riders hotel in Medora, to go someplace dry. Our hotel was once the hotel that Theodore Roosevelt stayed in when he came to visit Medora and the badlands. But it has been updated since then. Otherwise I don't know if I would have wanted to stay here. This hotel is beautiful. It definitely has a theme of Theodore Roosevelt. Actually the whole town of Medora has this theme. In our room was a cute teddy bear that had the r...

We have now started our road trip out west. Today we drove 545 miles. Thankfully most of it was on interstate 94, so we could go 75mph. The view of the drive was so beautiful. The rolling hills of grass and the various fields were fun to watch going by. It is such a change from the forests that I see at home. But not everything on 94 was natural. We saw from a distance some huge statues, otherwise known as touristy stops. The world's largest buffalo, sand hil...