First Week
We left home June 17 and traveled to Sanilac County Park at Forester, Michigan for the Fulton, Hobbs annual reunion, Jeannette’s family. After enjoying the company of about 27 first cousins and their kids and grandkids, we left Monday, June 19 and headed west. Our first stop was an impromptu stop at Amana Colonies RV park in Iowa. That left us about two hours out of Des Moines where we met our grandson, Zack, for lunch. He is interning with John Deere there this summer. From there we headed west to the Missouri river and then north to Fargo, ND where we overnighted in a WalMart/Sams parking lot. Lots of good looking corn and beans in our Great Plains. From Fargo, we turned west and headed for Fort Peck Dam in Montana. We deviated from the planned route and visited the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt NP in North Dakota and then to Fort Union Trading Post on the state line and on the Missouri River, just upriver from the confluence of the Missouri and the Yellowstone. We did