Geo: 47.1053, -104.712This was pretty much going to be a travel day, but we did find a few surprises. The day began at 8:20 AM and 73 degrees under fair skies, although by the end of the day it did reach 97 degrees. Yes, 97 degrees in the northern part of North Dakota. I don't think it was that warm in Florida today. The word for the day is FLAT. The land was so flat it was big sky country, even though we were in North Dakota not Montana. We could see for miles and miles in every direction. And we drove for miles and miles through fertile farm land and then into the prairie. The crops were more of the same, corn, soy beans, wheat and hay, and occasionally, sunflowers, but the farms seemed bigger.
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