Day 12 - Oil, Wind, & Small Towns

We left the oil boom area of western ND (near Dickinson), and made it to the state capitol in Bismarck.  I read that N Dakota is one of the windiest states - I am a believer.  One of the highlights is seeing the little towns that truly make America.  I appreciated the high school football fall camp in Richardson, and the world's largest Holstein cow (Salem Sue) near New Salem. We crossed  the Missouri River again as we entered Bismarck.  Thoughts for the day:

1. Biking with the oil gear hauling trucks for just a few miles in Dickinson as they merged onto the freeway gave me a sense of the clutter of the boomtown: the drilling & construction is all over.
2. Several roadside markers chart the course of General Custer & his troops as they traveled from near Bismarck to the Little Bighorn in Montana to qwell the Sioux uprising in 1876.  The country's fascination with Custer's last stand is interesting.