This is our 40th day wandering in the wilderness. We’ve heard locusts, but haven’t eaten any. We do put honey in our tea each evening, however.

We thanked Cindy and said goodbye as she was getting her grandchildren ready for school. One of her granddaughters was eager to take the picture.

Cindy has driven a school bus in Billings for 40 years. She said schools have been open since the middle of last year, but parents have the option of not sending their children to school. In one nearby district the superintendent had the bus drivers deliver lesson packets each day to the kids staying at home. She said it was a very welcome activity, because most of the kids missed the social interaction of school.

We stopped at McDonald’s for coffee and made a reservation for a campsite that evening.

We went to a state park with the intention of having lunch there, but there was a fee of $8 per vehicle, so we found a city park for free. The park had a splash pool as well as picnic tables and a playground.

We rode on to Medora, ND and dropped the trailer at our campground before going into Teddy Roosevelt National Park.

There are a variety of things to see in this less-visited park. First, there are badlands. These badlands have more grass and trees growing on them than the badlands in South Dakota. There is a 34-mile loop you can drive, but some of the road is under construction, so you can go 24 miles and turn around.

We stopped a couple of times to take pictures. This vista lent itself to a stitched image.

We saw some wild horses, but they were in the distance and there was no place to pull off to photograph them.

There was also no proper pull off to see the bison, so people just stopped in the road to take pictures. Everyone politely took a turn and moved on.

The bushes obstruct the view, but in this picture there are two cows and two calves.

There were hundreds and hundreds of prairie dog mounds. There are formal parking areas where you can take pictures.

After dinner we opted to walk into town for a beer and some entertainment. We found a saloon and had some local draft beers. I had a brown ale and Beth had something hoppy.

The free entertainment in the town square was folk singer, Tom Brosseau. His concert started at 9:30 p.m. and he played for an hour. He was excellent.

Starting in Bozeman, we’ve been riding the interstates. We are able to cover a lot of ground quickly and still see the countryside. The temperature has been in the 90s during the day, and cool at night. The big difference is the humidity gets higher the farther east we go.