Move from Glasgow, MT to Hazen, ND

The move went smoothly yesterday, no hitches to speak of.  And again, we traveled in rain.  Seems once we left Arizona our travel day has had rain fall in some fashion - each time.  And we have managed to watch a cracked front window of the RV get a ridge bigger.  We are hoping that we can manage to get along without having to seek to have the windshield replaced, only time will tell.

Wide open big sky country

Parallel the Missouri River for hours

A number of towns have routes that you can go north through Port of Entry to Canada 

And we waited

And watched Amtrak coast by

Goodbye Montana

Hello North Dakota

Left Glasgow and headed east on Route 2 which runs the entire length of the US from Seattle to New York City.  Almost all of it is a 2 lane road, we feel sorry for those that come up behind us and there is no passing lane for some distance.  Caught sight of the Missouri rive not far out of Glasgow and literally ran parallel to it until we got to the state line of North Dakota and Montana.  Then we headed south on route 200 and bam, in front of us was major flooding from the Missouri River.

Seems the gas drilling really picked up as soon as we got into Williston

Dorms/living quarters for the gas pipe line workers 

Much was under water in Williston, a little scary.  The Missouri turns south in Williston and the Garrison Dam located another 90 miles downstream backs up the Missouri to make Lake Sakakawea which is the 3rd largest man-made reservoir in the US.  Much bigger than Fort Peck Lake.  And deeper.

Flooding of Missouri River just south of Williston 

Once we dropped into North Dakota the obvious thing we saw EVERYWHERE was the gas pumping.  No farms or ranches, those were not found.  Only gas/oil fields.  And dorms for  the workers right near the offices.  This is so common.  Sometimes the dorms looked like chicken barns, all lined up, small windows.  We found it sad looking.

This is common, different grades of gas in the storage tanks

Huge mini-towns of energy companies and their housing for workers

Pipeline going in ground 

Dropped past Theodore Roosevelt National Park's north unit and continued on for a bit until we turned eastward again towards Hazen.  Ran into lots of road construction.  Stopped for a long period of time within Fort Berthold Indian Reservation - roads were pure mud.  Really got the RV and car mucked up big time.

This living quarter structure reminded me of chicken coop

Okay - pick a direction.  Any direction is good.

Ah - Hazen, we have arrived.

Finally got to Hazen with a thunderstorm looming.  Got unhooked, into our spot, electric and water hooked up and slides out when the storm came through.  Winds on the prairie are fierce!  We are in a city park, full hookup and literally no one here.  In 2011 when we stayed at this park we were among the transient harvesters who were in to take the neighboring fields down.  We don't care that we are pretty much alone, we feel very safe.

Will be here until July 5th when we take off to Minnesota.