Being in a house is nice, even when it is a strangers house. Maybe we are getting a little road weary. We managed to wake up early this morning and hit the road by eight. We've been talking about it for weeks as the days have gotten hotter, but hadn't yet actually pulled it off. We tend to drag a bit in the morning, enjoy the rising hours.
Joanne gave us a tip that rather than two days on SR1804 we could, it was only seventy miles to Bismark if we took US83, so we did. We flew down the highway with it's mild grades and the wind at our back. We made it into Bismarck early rode by the state capitol. It is the ugliest state capitol I've seen. It looks like an office building built in 1972. Maybe it was. Bismarck as a whole was not that good to us. It isn't laid out in a way that makes a lot of sense, or maybe we are just used to rolling into small towns where you can't help but find all of the necessary services. We ended up spending a lot of time running errands in Bismarck and didn't get out of town until late.
On our way to the library we rode by the scene of an accident. A guy on a motor cycle had been hit by a truck. He was still on the cycle pinned down by the other vehicle and yelling in pain. We stopped, but someone was already on the phone with 911 and emergency crews were on their way, so there was nothing we could do to help. It was a somewhat traumatizing experience. I was really shaken up. Amanda said that riding up to that scene confirmed for her that she wanted to get EMT certified. But, it also reminded me of how vulnerable we are out here on our bikes.
Well, that was kind of a down way to end a post. So, here are some pictures from the North Dakota Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. I don't know how to rotate the one, so if anybody can tell me how to do that from blogger send an email, si.webster@gmail.com, and I'll fix it.
1 comment:
Still riding on dollar bill tire?
Off a few decades on the ND capitol. It was built in 1934. Other "skyscraper" capitols are Nebraska & Louisiana.
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