I'm gearing up for a big two week trip out to the midwest with my boyfriend who hails from the great state of North Dakota, and I'm also getting ready to revive thisisnorthdakota.blogspot.com, a blog and photo journal that I started on our first trip out there two years ago.
As a city girl who had never been to the Great Plains, nearly everything we saw was new and exciting and slightly weird in a charming country way. I revived it on a second trip last summer for a 125th anniversary celebration of the town of New Rockford (pop. 1400), and I'm excited to revv it up again. It's a great way to keep the trip organized, and to keep everyone back home involved in our pastoral endeavors. This upcoming trip includes a leg that will take us farther west into Montana and Wyoming, including a stay in West Yellowstone to take in the park views. I know that my posts haven't always been personal in nature, it's something I've been resisting for some reason, but I'm giving in now. I'll be linking to the blog here with teaser pictures and videos, but I hope you'll check it out and follow us on our trip. One of the first things I'll be posting about is the grand opening of a shop in town that is advertising 'Live Bait and Gourmet Pocket Pies' in the hometown paper, which we have delivered to our Park Slope home so we can keep ourselves up-to-date on town gossip. Gourmet pocket pies sound pretty good, no? I don't know if they're sweet or savory, or what constitutes 'gourmet' in the middle of North Dakota, but you can bet I'll find out and report back.
PS- that's a pic of yours truly at the wheel of a Ford F1 pickup from the '30's, getting ready to drive down a dusty gravel farm road. No power brakes or steering-- a full body workout.
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