{"id":2770,"date":"2016-03-27T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:34:14","slug":"going-home-the-farm-near-beach-north-dakota-8-2-13-thru-8-4-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=2770","title":{"rendered":"Going Home & The Farm Near Beach, North Dakota (8-2-13 thru 8-4-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lupe and SPHP were\u00a0on the road before 6:00\u00a0AM on 8-2-13, Day 24 of Lupe’s 2013 Dingo Vacation to the Beartooths and Canadian Rockies.\u00a0 It had rained steadily during the night.\u00a0 It wasn’t raining now, but the low mountains of southern British Columbia were shrouded\u00a0in fog.\u00a0\u00a0Just S of Roosville, Lupe crossed the border back into the USA.\u00a0 She really was on her way home now.<\/p>\n

It was a long drive clear across northern Montana.\u00a0 At first, it was scenic and damp.\u00a0 There were mountains and intermittent rain.\u00a0 Lupe headed SE to Whitefish on Hwy 93, and then\u00a0cut across on Hwy 40\u00a0to Columbia Falls.\u00a0\u00a0Hwy 2 took Lupe through the mountains\u00a0around the S end of Glacier National Park.<\/p>\n

The mountains disappeared in the rear view mirror first.\u00a0 For a while, E of Glacier National Park, the rain did not.\u00a0 In fact, Lupe went through two cloudbursts.\u00a0 When it wasn’t raining hard where the G6 was,\u00a0downpours could be seen\u00a0scattered here and there\u00a0in various directions.<\/p>\n

An hour E of Shelby, the G6 finally got ahead of the rain.\u00a0 Low gray clouds still stretched out to the horizon in every direction.\u00a0 SPHP stopped the G6 twice to get out and stretch.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP took walks\u00a0in the little towns of Chester and Chinook.<\/p>\n

Neither Lupe nor SPHP had ever been in central or eastern parts of northern Montana before.\u00a0 To SPHP, it was rather disappointing.\u00a0 There were no mountains.\u00a0 There wasn’t even anything noteworthy on the horizon most of the way.\u00a0 The Bear Paw mountains could be seen in the distance S\u00a0of Havre, and there were some ridges SE of Saco, but otherwise the land was gently rolling and\u00a0featureless.<\/p>\n

Lupe certainly wasn’t disappointed in northern Montana, though.\u00a0 She was having a field day!\u00a0 Cows were everywhere!\u00a0 The dingy Dingo leapt wildly from window to window trying to bark at all of them at once.\u00a0 It was exhausting, but clearly exhilarating, work.\u00a0 Outside the G6 was a placid, pastoral scene.\u00a0 Inside it was deafening almost non-stop action.\u00a0 At least the American Dingo had to stop for water, and to catch her breath now and then.<\/p>\n

It was evening by the time Lupe and SPHP\u00a0paid a short visit to\u00a0the Fort Peck dam on the Missouri River\u00a0SE of Glasgow.\u00a0 Fort Peck Lake was vast and stretched to the horizon.\u00a0 It seemed lonely and remote.\u00a0 No doubt it would have been fun to explore\u00a0the huge lake\u00a0by boat.\u00a0 More fun than seeing it from the land, as Lupe soon found out.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe near Fort Peck Lake. This view is of a smaller lake below the dam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe with a view from the dam of Fort Peck Lake on the Missouri River in NE Montana.\u00a0 The lake was huge!\u00a0 It stretched far away to the horizon and beyond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Buildings<\/a>
Buildings along the Fort Peck Dam. SPHP presumes they were somehow related to power generation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Lupe near Fort Peck dam shortly before the cactus incident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While sniffing around in the weeds near a viewpoint, Lupe’s left rear paw stepped on a cactus.\u00a0 She whirled around to bite whatever was biting her.\u00a0 She got the piece of cactus off her paw, but was rewarded with a cactus spine stuck in the roof of her mouth.\u00a0 SPHP had to use tweezers to\u00a0remove it.\u00a0 All evening, the poor Carolina Dog tried to lick her own mouth to sooth the sore spot.<\/p>\n

Still in Montana, Lupe and SPHP called it a day in Wolf Point.\u00a0 Before turning in, SPHP bought a milkshake at the local\u00a0McDonald’s to help cool and provide some relief to Lupe’s sore mouth.\u00a0 Lupe proved\u00a0quite willing to take this medicine.\u00a0\u00a0The milkshake\u00a0was highly effective.\u00a0 Lupe’s sore mouth was cured.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Lupe and SPHP started out shortly after sunrise again.\u00a0 Lupe was still\u00a0going E across northern Montana on Hwy 2, but now she wasn’t far from North Dakota.\u00a0\u00a0North Dakota\u00a0was\u00a0about to join the American Dingo nation, and become the 9th Lupe state!<\/p>\n

While in North Dakota, SPHP planned to take Lupe on a little tour of Williston.\u00a0 SPHP wanted to see what Williston looked like.\u00a0 The once sleepy, very remote town had been transformed by the Bakken shale oil and gas boom, which was in full swing.\u00a0 Lupe might also get a chance to visit her great Uncle Andy and Aunt Connie, meet King III, their old yellow lab,\u00a0and see their farm near Beach, ND.<\/p>\n

Before Lupe reached North Dakota, SPHP started seeing new housing subdivisions in tiny, formerly dying towns in NE Montana.\u00a0 The first new subdivision was in Poplar.\u00a0 There was a bigger one in Culbertson.\u00a0 Lupe started seeing a few oil wells.\u00a0 There were stacks of big blue pipes N of Hwy 2.\u00a0 Then a big blue pipeline appeared, not yet buried.\u00a0 Overall though, the effects of the oil and gas boom didn’t really look all that great, until Lupe crossed the border into North Dakota.<\/p>\n

The first stoplight was 7 miles W of Williston.\u00a0 From then on, there was heavy traffic, especially truck traffic.\u00a0 Even though it was Saturday morning, Williston was a swarming hive of activity.\u00a0 Everything on\u00a0the W and N sides of town looked brand new.<\/p>\n

There were rows of metal buildings housing energy related companies, both famous and unfamiliar.\u00a0 Stacks of materials and lots of machinery were kept in adjacent fenced yards.\u00a0 New houses, new apartments, new restaurants, new businesses, new roads, new everything was all over the place.\u00a0 Williston was a genuine boom town.<\/p>\n

Lupe and SPHP went and found a park in the old part of Williston.\u00a0 There were big old trees here, and a lot less going on.\u00a0 Lupe struck it rich, and found a squirrel in the very first tree she checked.\u00a0 She made such a ruckus about it, SPHP decided it might be best to move on.\u00a0 SPHP called Lupe’s great Aunt Connie in Beach.\u00a0 Right away, Connie invited Lupe and SPHP to come on down to Beach for a visit.<\/p>\n

So before Lupe got in trouble for disturbing what little peace there was in Williston, she and SPHP headed S for Beach, ND, a tiny town along I-94 barely across the border from Montana.<\/p>\n

Connie and Andy had an old yellow lab named King.\u00a0 Technically King was King III, the third in a line of yellow labs that Connie and Andy had.\u00a0 When Connie opened the door at their house in Beach, King III was right there.\u00a0 King III could hardly believe his eyes!\u00a0 Here was a cute little Dingo wanting to come in for a visit!\u00a0 King III loved the idea.\u00a0 He wanted to play!\u00a0 Lupe growled.\u00a0 King III was mighty big!<\/p>\n

SPHP was interested in seeing Connie and Andy’s farm, but didn’t even have to ask for a tour.\u00a0 After visiting with Connie and Andy for a short while, they asked if Lupe and SPHP would like to see it.\u00a0 Of course!\u00a0 So everyone piled into Connie and Andy’s car, both dogs included, with SPHP between them to keep the peace.\u00a0 The farm was 16 miles S of town.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP got the grand tour.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The G6 at Connie and Andy’s house in Beach, ND.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"<\/a>
Lupe’s great uncle Andy, great aunt Connie, and King III out at the farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Andy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The farm S of Beach, ND. Wow, after crossing central and eastern Montana, that hill in the distance is a veritable mountain! Crops are looking good, too. Wheat and lentils.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Connie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe enjoyed the tour of the farm. She and King III got to get out and sniff around, and run after the car for exercise. King III was an old farm dog, but it was all a new and interesting experience for Lupe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Connie, Andy and SPHP spent so much time visiting, that Lupe and SPHP got invited to spend the night in Beach.\u00a0 The next morning, Lupe, King III, Connie and SPHP all took a walk to the edge of town.\u00a0 After breakfast, it was time for Lupe to finish her trip home.\u00a0 It was now 8-4-15, Day 26 of Lupe’s great Dingo Vacation to the Beartooths and Canadian Rockies, and time to get back to the Black Hills.<\/p>\n

Of course, SPHP dawdled along taking roads never seen before, instead of just taking the most direct route home.\u00a0 Lupe’s vacation continued all day.\u00a0 Lupe went back into eastern Montana.\u00a0 She went through Baker and Ekalaka.\u00a0 She passed Medicine Rocks State Park.<\/p>\n

A forested section of hills in the Custer National Forest looked very similar to Lupe’s Black Hills back home.\u00a0 S of\u00a0the Custer National Forest was\u00a0a rather impressive\u00a0long high ridge, topped with rock, which stretched far off to the SE.\u00a0 The Little Missouri River valley was beautiful.\u00a0 Cows and horses kept Lupe busy.\u00a0 She took up the sport of barking at hay bales, too, just for good measure.<\/p>\n

The 73rd annual Sturgis Motorcycle Classic<\/a><\/span><\/strong> (Sturgis Rally), a week long\u00a0event that brings huge numbers of motorcycle\u00a0enthusiasts to the little town of Sturgis, SD\u00a0on the NE edge of the Black Hills every year,\u00a0was just beginning.\u00a0 Before Lupe even left Montana and entered Wyoming, there were bikers on\u00a0motorcycles pouring in from all over.<\/p>\n

Lupe dropped by the KOA campground<\/a><\/span><\/strong> just E of Devil’s Tower National Monument<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 A couple of motorcyclists had the same idea.<\/p>\n

\"SPHP<\/a>
SPHP had planned on getting Lupe a little blue ice cream at the store E of Devil’s Tower National Monument. All the parking lots at the KOA campground were totally jammed with motorcycle enthusiasts here for the annual Sturgis Rally, held the 1st full week of August each year. SPHP decided Lupe would have to wait for ice cream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actually, the place was packed.\u00a0 There were hundreds of motorcycles.\u00a0 Everyone seemed to be in good spirits and having a great time.\u00a0 There was a big party going on.\u00a0 The store was doing a brisk business.\u00a0 Lupe got lots of compliments from the friendly\u00a0bikers.\u00a0 She was loving it and\u00a0basking in glory.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe at Devil’s Tower, WY. She is looking pretty happy about it. She was basking in the glory of a lot of compliments from the friendly bikers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been a tradition with SPHP to buy blue ice cream at the store just E of the monument on each visit to Devil’s Tower.\u00a0 SPHP had intended to get Lupe some.\u00a0 This time, though, it looked like it was going to take a long time to get waited on.\u00a0 It was too hot out to make Lupe wait in the G6 that long.<\/p>\n

So Lupe didn’t get any blue ice cream at Devil’s Tower<\/a> (5,112 ft.)<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Lupe and SPHP headed S for Sundance, WY.\u00a0 There were 6 bikers riding 2 abreast ahead of the G6.\u00a0 They were taking their time enjoying the scenery while winding through forested hills W of the Black Hills of Wyoming, also called the Bear Lodge Mountains.\u00a0 Before long there were 50 or 100 motorcycles following the G6.\u00a0 It was fun!\u00a0 It was\u00a0like Lupe was\u00a0leading a grand motorcycle parade!<\/p>\n

Lupe and SPHP left the motorcycle parade at Sundance.\u00a0 SPHP stopped at the grocery store there.\u00a0 Since Lupe hadn’t gotten any ice cream at Devil’s Tower, SPHP was going to make it up to her.\u00a0 SPHP came out with a box of 6 Eskimo pies.\u00a0 Lupe was forced to help devour every last one of them as fast as possible, since they were soon melting fast.\u00a0 She was completely up to the task.\u00a0 She would have been willing to do more, if only the need had arisen.<\/p>\n

Instead of heading home on I-90, SPHP took Lupe S on Hwy 585 from Sundance.\u00a0 Lupe\u00a0saw Inyan Kara<\/a><\/span><\/strong> (6,360 ft.)<\/strong><\/span> mountain.\u00a0 She was soon back in the Black Hills of South Dakota.\u00a0 In the Black Hills,\u00a0Lupe went on\u00a0the final exploration of her entire 2013 Dingo Vacation.\u00a0 From Black Fox campground, she headed up the Rhoades Fork of Rapid Creek following USFS Road No. 233 for more than a mile.<\/p>\n

Of course, she drank from the cool, clear stream!\u00a0 Of course, she posed for\u00a0the final pictures of\u00a0her 2013 Dingo Vacation!<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe gets a drink in Rhoad’s Fork of Rapid Creek upstream of Black Fox CG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A little more than an hour after returning to the G6, Lupe was home.\u00a0 Her 26 day summer of 2013 Dingo Vacation to the Beartooths and Canadian Rockies was finally over.\u00a0 It seemed like a long time since Day 1, when she went to\u00a0the Elysian Fields of Puppy<\/span> Happiness<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and spent the night on Bald Mountain<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(10,042 ft.)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 It had been a wonderful trip, but it was still good to be home!<\/p>\n

\"Lupe's<\/a>
Lupe’s final photo of her 2013 Dingo Vacation to the Beartooths and the Canadian Rockies. Here she is on 8-4-13\u00a0back in the Black Hills of South Dakota about 1.5 miles upstream of Black Fox campground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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