NORTH DAKOTA RECORD-HOLDERS

We enjoyed North Dakota and hope to come back someday, because we missed a lot on this short stay.  But there is an awful lot of green, flat farm country to cover between places.  Pretty to look at this time of year, up to a point, when it starts to feel "more of the same."  Here are some of the things North Dakotans have done to break up the monotony.

Lgst buffalo jamestown We stayed one night in Jamestown.  The RV Park, called Frontier Fort, was within walking distance of  (Ta-Da) THE WORLD'S LARGEST BUFFALO.  There's also a Buffalo Museum and an old-western town reproduction.  One of the buildings in it is dedicated to Louis L'Amour, the prolific writer of Westerns, who was born in Jamestown.   As a boy, he spent a lot of time in the Jamestown public library and he credited the librarians with forming his ambition to become a writer.  

Frontier Fort was a good place to stay overnight.  The RV park was fine and the attached fort and village area made for an interesting afternoon walk after we got settled in for the night.

New salem sue Just down the road apiece is this statue of New Salem Sue (Ta-Da) THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOLSTEIN.  Apparently, she is anatomically correct, but we only saw her on the brink of the hill because we didn't stop at New Salem.  Sue

  

 

Near the town of Steele, we also passed (double Ta-Da) THE WORLD'S LARGEST SANDHILL CRANE.

Lg sandhill, steele nd It is green and pretty here in North Dakota this time of the year, but creating these road-side record-breakers probably gives people something to do during the long Winters.  (There are snow fences and snow gates on the highway, snow markers in the towns; we wouldn't want to be here when they were in use!). 

Everybody seems to make fun of North Dakota (including us, evidently) but we actually really did enjoy our time here.   We didn't even have enough time to see all of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and so, for that alone, we'd like to come back someday.  And then, too, we could check on the welfare of all these large animals! 

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One response to “NORTH DAKOTA RECORD-HOLDERS”

  1. Crazy stuff! We’re going on a road trip pretty soon and I’ll be keeping an eye out for some roadside kitsch of my own! Stay tuned…

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