Storm Clouds and Great Food! After a long day of hiking on one of the highest points in the state of North Dakota and chasing storm clouds across more than a hundred miles of backroads, we were hungry! Though when we go on extended explorations we always carry an...
Be an explorer — get off the highway We’re huge fans of getting off the Interstate, exploring alternative roads…and following road maps, not google maps. That’s how to get to unusual sites, scenes and corners of rural America and the Badlands...
Road Trippin’ and Storm Chasin’ in the Badlands Part 1 The Mild-Mannered Explorers did it. You can do it! An exploration of one of the state’s high points led to a photographic chase of a magnificent storm system. The pair watched the weather forecast for days...
Hungry! Our day was filled with new sights and sounds when we attended the annual rendezvous at the Fort Union Trading Post in northwestern North Dakota. What we thought might be an afternoon departure from the Williston, North...
Dark gloomy beauty It’s the kind of weather that discourages people from a sightseeing afternoon in the Badlands. That’s why people miss the personality of this dark, wet beauty. Under dark clouds, the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park...
A long day, getting longer, getting late. Hundreds of miles traveled, dozens of people encountered. Solitary relief was planned. The weather had other ideas. Plans for a grasslands hike were washed out by afternoon rain. It promised to wrap the explorers in a wet...