Day 12 - Jamestown, ND

After leaving our friends Jeff and Christie at Lake Chetek, we ambled along Wisconsin Rte. 8 to St. Croix Falls, where we crossed the Mississippi. We then headed up MN Rte. 95 through Cambridge and Princeton and on to St. Cloud, MN. In St. Cloud we picked up I-95 (back on the Super Slab!) and headed for Fargo, ND. We debated dropping down to US-12 and taking it home (12 would have put us within a mile of our house in Walla Walla), but decided we wanted to make tracks and get home as quickly as possible. After a Wal-Mart stop in Fargo, it was on to Jamestown, ND, home of the National Buffalo Museum. We we stopped at a former KOA Campground. Like most KOA's (current and former) this one was near the freeway, so there was a fair amount of road noise.

Next morning, Erika woke up and announced she had strep throat. We've been through this a gazillion times with her, so we take her seriously. We ended up at the Jamestown Hospital, where she was seen promptly and diagnosed with . . . Strep Throat. Got our antibiotics and were on our way by noon, headed for Miles City, MT.

The route on I-94 through North Dakota is largely unremarkable, with the exception of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the North Dakota Badlands in the Western part of the state. This is Teddy Roosevelt Country, and I can see why he enjoyed it. On a return trip, we'd like to take a couple days to explore this area.