I don't think I took any pictures in North Dakota- but I will say, that aaaalllll the way to the west side, it starts to get a little pretty and not so boring.
Once in Montana, I made a disturbing find pretty quickly. I found this ball of fur and suspected it was a dead animal. Using an assessment tool modified for distance use, I examined the suspected carcass (I poked it with a stick) and found it to be solid. More prodding revealed insects in the fur and a tail. It's a wolf (I think) with its head cut off. Welcome to Montana.
Less awful finds, farther to the west:
Washington started out pretty flat and boring, frankly:
After a couple of hundred miles though, I was quite happy to find this:
At the bunkhouse (more pictures to follow) there are three stories and several rooms. It's basically a "Jersey Shore" situation, but totally different (make sense?). I nabbed a room in the basement, which is cool (temperature wise). There's no notices up or markings of any kind for newbies, so had there not been someone here to fill me in, I'd have been lost. There's no notes up about who is where/what rooms, and there's stuff all over from observers currently deployed, so it's a bit confusing.
As I write this, a couple of guys and a non-resident observer have returned from the bars, and I'm having flashbacks to my first few months in South Africa. Sigh. BOOM-BOOM, laughter, yelling....repeat. The folks I've met so far are not the scientists I had hoped they'd be. :(
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