September 19: We went back to the first bar and grabbed another couple of pitchers. We got to meet and hang out with a lot of people our age who were in the area because of the oil boom that had been going on for the last fee years. tons if money but a crisis in housing, the boom extended into Poplar, MT with the nexus being Williston, ND, right where we were aiming for the next day. Good luck trying to find a place to crash and watch out for all the trucks on the road was the general sentiment expressed by everyone. They invited us to another bar, loading our bikes in a pickup and off we went. Jesse, a structural engineer fresh out if college and Colorado who was there for the work bought us a pitcher. We closed the bar down, which in North Dakota means only 1am, and Jessie dropped us and the bikes off at the town campgrounds.

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