I mentioned in the previous post how Devils Lake was overflowing it's banks. We went on a little journey yesterday, to see the Geological Center of North America in Rugby, North Dakota. Since the owner of the campground said that if we go south out here and get on Route 20, we should have 
a much better ride. Oh my goodness! We had 12 more miles of dirt road, will have to say - it was a tidge smoother since most 
people don't use that road - but still. Creeping along at 8 miles an hour because you don't want to kick up dirt and stones - not my way of going. We bucked up and continued on and the devastation from the flooding was similar to what we saw last year in the bayous of Louisiana - 5 years after Katrina had gone through and it was still awful. Whereas Katrina took everything away and just left foundations, this flood just buried buildings and 
structures and farm land - gone. Under water. Talk about mud and yuck. The picture above left is from our truck moving along Route 20 right near Devils Lake. Thousands of workers are here to rebuild the roads, the infrastructure, the gas lines, electric lines, build highways much higher. We passed a couple of worker-bee RV camps that looked like small cities. The weirdest thing about these camps where - no cars or trucks parked there - everyone was at work. As a matter of fact we have a couple of sites here 
where the guys get up at 5:30am and are out of here by 6:15. We wake up to smelling bacon and eggs and toast about 5:45 - yum. We did make it to the Geological Center of North America - and here's what it looked like - dorky, but we can say we have been to one of the four points - Lubec, Maine. We will get to the one in Washington some day. I went to the office to talk with the owner about how best to go to our next sight - west and south of here about 150 miles. He said - Route 20! No way. We will go back out the way we came in, heading west again on Route 2, then jogging down Route 83. We leave tomorrow and the one thing we are dreading during the drive - the cabbage butterflies just gunk up the windshield and the front of the truck and RV. There are so many of them that it looks like big snow flakes. Except when they hit the window and well, yuck.
a much better ride. Oh my goodness! We had 12 more miles of dirt road, will have to say - it was a tidge smoother since most 
people don't use that road - but still. Creeping along at 8 miles an hour because you don't want to kick up dirt and stones - not my way of going. We bucked up and continued on and the devastation from the flooding was similar to what we saw last year in the bayous of Louisiana - 5 years after Katrina had gone through and it was still awful. Whereas Katrina took everything away and just left foundations, this flood just buried buildings and 
structures and farm land - gone. Under water. Talk about mud and yuck. The picture above left is from our truck moving along Route 20 right near Devils Lake. Thousands of workers are here to rebuild the roads, the infrastructure, the gas lines, electric lines, build highways much higher. We passed a couple of worker-bee RV camps that looked like small cities. The weirdest thing about these camps where - no cars or trucks parked there - everyone was at work. As a matter of fact we have a couple of sites here 
where the guys get up at 5:30am and are out of here by 6:15. We wake up to smelling bacon and eggs and toast about 5:45 - yum. We did make it to the Geological Center of North America - and here's what it looked like - dorky, but we can say we have been to one of the four points - Lubec, Maine. We will get to the one in Washington some day. I went to the office to talk with the owner about how best to go to our next sight - west and south of here about 150 miles. He said - Route 20! No way. We will go back out the way we came in, heading west again on Route 2, then jogging down Route 83. We leave tomorrow and the one thing we are dreading during the drive - the cabbage butterflies just gunk up the windshield and the front of the truck and RV. There are so many of them that it looks like big snow flakes. Except when they hit the window and well, yuck.
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