DAY 6 CRUDE, CRUD, AND MUD 5-25-14

Headed west for a while then turned north on 85 crossing the National Grasslands Park. This led to the North Dakota oil boom area. Glad we saw it don't need to ever go back. The area is permeated with the smell of crude oil, drilling rigs and pumps everywhere. The ranchers and farmers aren't doing either just making money leasing land to oil companies. Roadways are muddy and full of crude haulers and young oil field workers in big four wheel drive pick-ups. The unemployment rate is less than .3%.

Four dollars plus for a gallon of gas in sight of half a dozen functioning wells. However the twelve dollar burgers were pretty good. After our tour of the area headed for Route 2 the northern most US Highway.  ROUTE 2 LINK

Once in Montana quickly changed scenery from oil to the Missouri River and rolling green farms turned south to find a hotel and ended up back at I-94 same road we started on this morning. We aren't that far down the road if we had gone in a straight line but almost 400 miles later we spent dinner talking about what we had seen.