Medora, ND – July 30th – August 2nd
Our day didn’t start very well, we were busy packing up to head to Medora and John came to the door and told me that I should “hold up, we got a flat”. Being a Sunday and wanting to get on the road we changed it ourselves.
The day didn’t get much better, we were between Bismarck and Dickinson and all the sudden we heard something dragging. We pulled over on I-94 and saw that our tail pipe rusted out right behind the muffler. John was able to hog tie it up and off we went again.
The view of Theodore Roosevelt National Park just east of Medora. The drive was beautiful.
The view from our campsite at Red Trail Campground.
Inside TRNP, we seen a few different herds of buffalo and wild horses. We observed a park ranger shoo off a coyote in one of the many prairie dog farms.
Painted Canyon part of TRNP, (free) yet another warm day, the clouds helped. The visitors center at Painted Canyon has a hiking path down in the canyon. Hiking down in the canyon was easygoing, the paths were nice, views were spectacular, the hike up was a little more challenging. The elevation at the top of the Canyon was 2780′ we hiked down to 2538′.
We were surprised to see cactus down in the canyon.
We went to the pitchfork steak fondue and the Medora Musical.
The Palmer Express 