Travelling through eastern Montana is actually quite nice. This is all wheat country which has a beauty of it's own especially at harvest time (which is now). We are travelling on Highway 2 just a few miles south of the Canadian border. This road is a 2 lane highway and unfortunatley has little to no shoulder, and towing the TT, I was not able to stop for photos when appropriate. And of course the heat was back and summer was now upon us, big time, with days into the upper 90s. We stopped for the night in Havre, MT at a county fairground which was a good deal for $20.
It is now that we are starting to see the toll the miles are starting to take on our car and trailer. We are over 14,000 miles for the trip and with the beating the equipment had taken up north I am not really surprised to see some issues (although nothing serious). I noticed some front tire wear on the truck and had a complete roataion and balance of all the tires but will most likely need an alignment and I changed the air filter which was really needed after all the dirt and gravel roads we travelled.
We then made our way into ND. We had hoped to head a little south to the Theodore Roosevelt NP park but eastern ND, like BC and south TX is in the midst of a hugh oil and gas boom. Williston is the town closest to the border and it is just overrun with big rigs and people. The good news is the roads are being built to accommodate all the traffic, the bad news is we got stuck in all this mess at the end of a long and hot day! We scrapped our original plans then continued east. The next mroning I noticed one trailer tire looking rather bleak so we had that changed out and moved on. It was not too long after leaving this area that we left the oil patch behind and the driving became much easier. We crossed into MN that evening and stayed at a state park right on the border.
Not too many pictures here as we are now trying to get some miles behind us.
More to come....
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