Traveling Through North Dakota

After leaving Rochester, Minnesota, Home town of Michelle Clark Rice, we headed North and West on I94 for most of the next day. We stopped for the night at Jamestown RV Park in – you guessed it – Jamestown, ND. The campground was nice enough, but it was so close to the highway that you could hear the cars roar pass all night long. This marked our 1,735th mile on the trip.

In the morning we went to the National Buffalo Museum, just down the road. It did a nice job describing the history of the American Bison going from millions of animals down to just a few hundred at the turn of the 20th century to their return due to conservation. Currently there are more than 250,000 bison in the country, mostly on private ranches.

One of the highlights had to be seeing the world’s largest buffalo!

After spending some time on the road, we got to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandon where Lewis and Clark spent a winter before heading out to explore the West. Many people do not know that for a long time, Michelle Clark Rice thought that William Clark as a distant relative and was always fascinated with their travels. Maybe that is why we traveled so far out of the way to check this place out! However it was very interesting nonetheless.