August 15, 2020

Spacious Skies

White Buffalo RV Park Watford City, North Dakota

Happy happy birthday to our sweet Oliver!

I started the day with a morning walk and spotted this squirrel.  Squirrels here are almost black

Today we had the most beautiful ride of this trip.  We took the scenic road from Burlington to Watford City.  The pictures are pretty but they don’t do justice to the scenery.  Lots of ponds and farms and hay bales and lots of blue open sky. 

Breakfast spot near this wheat fields…with sunflowers…and yes he picked one for me!

We began to see oil rigs as we neared Watford.  We are in the middle of the Bakkin Oil Fields. 

We are staying at White Buffalo RV Park, a perfectly serviceable but unlovely campground.  We didn’t rest at all this afternoon because we were eager to go and see the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. 

The Little Missouri River cut through the sandy plains to create these Badlands.  We enjoyed the 14-mile scenic drive and got out of the Jeep several times to walk and take in the views.

Bison were reintroduced here in 1956.

After we left the park, we drove to the CCC Campground to scope out possibilities for tomorrow evening.  The campground is $5.00 a night for those with a senior pass and it overlooks the National Park.  We will move tomorrow morning.

We found a nice shady picnic spot for our dinner.

We went to get a few groceries and we did some laundry this evening in preparation for dry camping.