We finally made it Williston! It has taken me a few days to blog because I have been unpacking. First thing first...we left our home at 3:45 am on the 17th. Colton wouldn't go back to bed so he watched a movie until we got to about Chippewa and then he fell asleep again. Our first obstacle came when we got to the cities and a new whistling sound started coming from the engine. We stopped outside of the cities to check it out and it looked like a small crack in the hose from the turbo to the radiator, Medford Motors said that it shouldn't cause a problem. We get a few more miles down the road and all of a sudden there is BOOM! and the hood jumps and we have black smoke coming from the tail pipe. We thought that the engine blew up, but the hose blew off the engine and we had to stop and buy a hose clamp so we could get rolling again.
We had hoped that we would be able to get ahead of the rain that was on the way, and we probably would have if we had not had hose issues...anyways...it started to sprinkle and then it started to rain, and then it was a downpour! Oh my gosh! My mind was just racing, my poor dogs, my stuff in the back of the truck...AHHH! We had to stop, buy a tarp to put over the dogs and our things. We started on our merry way again and Billy and I started looking at the clouds and we could see that they were strarting to point down to the ground, but were not swirling. We hauled butt to get out of Minnesota.
North Dakota is a boring state to drive through. There is nothing there! When we got closer to Williston we ran into some road work and had to take a detour that led us through the Killdeer Mountains. Beautiful, breathtaking!! Oh my gosh my pictures don't even do it justice!
The road was so windy and steep that I was crazy worried the whole time, but the view was awesome! It is time to sleep, we have been so busy and Brodon isn't feeling well so I need to sleep when I can...more to come tomorrow:)
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