Day Forty One - Rest Day

Today we enjoyed a lazy morning in our camp drinking hot chocolate then toured Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park.  

http://www.parkrec.nd.gov/parks/falsp/falsp.html

After lunch at the commissary we washed clothes by hand and took advantage of the sunshine to dry them.   We toured the reconstructed (from original blue prints) soldier barracks, stables, and General Custer's house.  Some of the Custer family photos and furniture are part of the house and the cellar floor is original. We enjoyed listening to our tour guide play the accordion while relaxing on the porch of the Custer house and getting to know a little about this interesting young man.  His parents are from Norway.  His family lives in Mandan and he grew up without a TV, family time was important and he and his siblings learned to play several instruments.  His favorite instruments are what he calls happy instruments, the accordion and banjo.  He also knows all the different types of birds and the calls of each.

That evening we attended the Ranger Program about the Tour de France with a Tour de Fort Abraham Lincoln scheduled the following day for kids camping that weekend.  At the end of the presentation, Ronnie and I were asked to tell a little about our bike tour.

Logan and Jacqueline

Presented a program on the Tour de France