Tuesday, May 15, 2012

And the 20th Day & a bust at Miles City

Leaving Miles City, MT, I wanted to stop at Terry to visit Archie's Vintage Car Museum.
About 5 miles from Terry the GPS said we had to turn off on the old highway which I
disregarded.  Took the main city exit and the road had weight restriction of 20,000 lbs going
into town.Weighing 41,000 lbs I disregarded that too.  Not knowing if the museum was
even open, I didn't want to unhook. Passed the Sheriff going right down Main, found the
museum(not much) and was closed. Waved at the Sheriff as we left town.
With all the oil welling going on in NE Montana, we decided to skip a couple stops and
haul ass to New Town, ND (the center of all this oil welling and very crazy). Today is
Sunday but you would never know it...bumper to bumper trucks, road work & drilling
for oil. A lot of the secondary roads are gravel and with all the traffic, a big dust bowl
far worse than Quartzsite. By accident we stumbled on to a campsite at an Army Corp
of Engineer site. Camp sites are hard to find for workers here. With daylight left, we were
off to find, I hope soon to be ours, the Mineral Rights oil well. After a few wrong
turns and 30 miles of Dusty gravel roads, there it was.  Pumping away on a site
that looked big enough for the proposed 2nd well near by.





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