I drove to Rexburg this morning for some final supplies before starting my first trip and I stopped at our base to chat with a couple drivers. I mentioned that one of my stops was Williston ND, the oil boom town, and Jan asked “Why in the hell would you go to that armpit?”, or something to that effect :-)
It turns out she worked construction up there and watched the boom unfold. She said you travel through hundreds of miles of nothing to get there and then there’s nothing there but trucks. I’d already concluded it would be expensive to hang around and accommodations were out of the question. Oh well, scratch that!
So, my carefully planned adventure is tossed up in the air and who knows where I’ll land after leaving Billings on Saturday. I guess you’ll just have to drop by here to find out!
I’ll being doing that daily. Stay safe and travel cool. Make sure to keep and eye on your trucks water level.
Ah, I know where you’re coming from Betty, your husband was a radiator man! No sweat, her radiator rode through 119° in the desert last year.
Have a great time. May God give you lots of travel mercies.
Thanks Sally. (Note to self: Travel Mercies = great blog post title :-)