North Dakota! - Day 205

  There wasn't even a North Dakota sign on the road I traveled as I entered the state! Well, here is what everyone thinks all of North Dakota is like. But it just ain't so!

There are only two really level places along the entire North Country Trail. What kind of surface is self-leveling? Water, right? So here, in western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, where glacial Lake Agassiz once held more water than the current Great Lakes combined, the filled-in lake is flat.

Where else is flat on the NCT? Nortwest Ohio- the remains of the Great Black Swamp.

But soon after entering ND, the terrain becomes rolling hills. Not huge hills, but definitely rolling. It's still several hours of driving to reach the Missouri River and the terminus of the NCT. I'm not quite there, even yet (just a very few miles). But the water behind the trees is Lake Audubon, the eastern end of Lake Sakakawea.

Tonight I'm in a campground right on the shore of Lake Audubon. It's a Corps of Engineers campground, and my interagency senior pass gets me half off here too!

The day was blistering hot. Thankfully, it's supposed to cool off some tomorrow. My next helper arrived. Look who it is! Yup, Om and I will travel together for a while. Terrible picture, but it's too hot to care about trying for another one.

Tomorrow, I am still not hiking. It's going to rain, and I am so far behind on "paperwork" that I'm going to spend the day concentrating on getting a lot of it caught up. Then I'll hike on Saturday.

See Tucked In with the Minnesota Mosquitoes