Day 5 - On Saturday, we drove from Grand Rapids to Minot, North Dakota. The whole trip was on US-2, the longest US Highway. We stopped in Grand Forks, ND to visit the Saturday Town Square Farmers Market. We found a small but nice town market with farm products, some crafts and food.
And one interesting sculpture:
In Grand Rapids we found a series of very small houses that were interesting:
Central North Dakota has a lot of farms. We saw some fields of canola and many grain elevators. One of the largest was this one loading train cars:
We continued west and decided that the Purple Z needed a wash after 4 days of smashing bugs. We found a Dukes carwash, the same name as a carwash back in Westminster.
Immediately after the carwash, we encountered some extreme weather. We were racing the storms and lightning. We drove several miles with about 50 yard visibility.
We did make it safely to Minot.
Jim