Day 13 - 19 June, Thursday, Glendive, MT - Beach, ND (38 Miles)

     Today was a prefect day for a bike ride....started of sunny in the mid 60s and warmed up to about 70 degrees.  It was nice not to have to battle the weather!  The whole ride was on the Interstate today...I was riding on I-94 for the entire ride.  It wasn't bad because the interstates have a pretty big shoulder...much bigger than some of the 2 lane highways that I have been riding on.  The cars are flying by at 85 mph though.

     The landscape as I moved in to North Dakota changed to numerous buttes.

     John picked me up in Beach, ND and we drove to Jamestown, ND.  We are staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown.  On the way we stopped at Theodore Roosevelt National Park and viewed the Painted Canyons and the largest herd of free roaming buffalo (however we didn't see any of the 500 they are reported to have).  We did see the largest buffalo in the world weighing in at 60 tons...see the picture with John below.

     Tomorrow I will ride to Valley City, ND and then we will drive to my sister Linda's house in Edina, MN, where John will be flying home from on Sunday.

                         Painted Canyon at Theodore Roosevelt National Park

                               Painted Canyon at Theodore Roosevelt National Park