Well, we survived the night in the Walmart parking lot - storms are completely gone this morning and sun is shining, like it never happened! It's time to really start making time to get back to Ohio, but we still have sites to see along the way. Havre turned out to be big enough to have a Kmart right next to the Walmart, but we travelled on. Followed Rt 2 past more cows and fields until turning south onto Rt 24 in Glasgow - this road passes Ft Peck Lake and Dam, which leads into the Missouri River. The lake was calm and quiet, just a couple boaters, but gorgeous. We stopped to run Sara and get some photos from the overlook, then back on the road south. We saw the name Piney Buttes on the map, but I had forgotten what a butte was until they suddenly appeared before us! Humps of mountains, with flat tops, and they appeared as if they had erupted right out of the ground! We have also changed to fields of wheat, "amber waves of grain" blowing in the wind. All very serene! We drove on to Glendive, where we had hoped to reach for a campsite. Unfortunately, our cigarette charger in dash is no longer charging and the GPS won't charge any other way, and we are not getting much from our Verizon signals out on the prairie (in fact, Verizon thought we were still in Canada while driving Rt 2 along the Montana/Canada border). Also, on one of these quiet side roads, a pick up truck had passed me and threw a stone at my windshield that promptly cracked it! Remember I told you this windshield is imported from Venice, Italy and I had been so careful all along the Alaska Highway!!! It's a dime sized star crack, so I hope it can be repaired!! We saw Makoshika State Park listed on the map as being in Glendive, so we just followed road signs until we arrived at the park - and that was many turns through side streets and neighborhoods until we suddenly ran out of town, and hit the gates of the park. We arrived 5:20 pm, visitor office closed at 5pm. We weren't even sure they had RV campsites, but some camper sitting at the office said they do so we drove in to inspect. After arriving we read Makoshika is Montana's largest state park, famous for it's dinosaur fossils and terrain (badlands) - more of those darn "buttes". We just learned that word today, and we keep finding more of them!! We found a campsite, not cheap - $28 for no hookups, but we don't know how to find our way out of here, so guess we'll stay til visitor center opens in am :). We had a quick dinner, flies are mean here, and decided to put long pants on to get in a hike before night. We really don't know anything about the place, what kinds of trails are available, how long or where they go, but one starts across the road from us and we can see a bench on a lookout way above our campsite, so we start there! We had no sooner started onto the trail than we ran into a bridge, boarded over, and remnants of a sign hanging, maybe saying something like "for your safety---closed", but looked like everyone had gone below the bridge to cross the dry creek bed, so we followed the footprints. The trail picked up on the other side, and went from the creek bed up into the center of the buttes, and then over some very rough steps that climbed the buttes. We came to another sign that said something about being closed, but now we could see the bench at the overlook, so why stop now?! Halfway up that steep climb, I had to let Sara off leash for fear of being pulled over, since there were big uneven steps with no hand rails, and slippery rocks. I spied the final "closed" gate at the top of the staircase, and was actually happy to have to turn around! We were pretty far up, and I didn't like the looks of loose gravel for the path down, but the view of the buttes was beautiful. And we are supposed to be able to find dinosaur fossils in these rocks, but haven't noticed it yet! (Have seen a lot of Dino statues in Montana, though!). We managed to get out safely, and got back to the campsite in time to meet the neighbors. Older woman and her dog, Juniper, are on one side - she is from Prescott, AZ and following up on family geneology in this area; other couple beside us are from Southern California and are vacationing for 2 months starting with family in Minnesota and now headed west for fun - he grew up on a Minnesota farm, so we asked all our "city girl" questions about what we had seen in the farmlands today. I thought I had seen green crops with an occasional yellow flower on top, and he confirmed this area grows sunflowers as a crop for sunflower oil and seeds! They had seen large fields in South Dakota, so hope to see more. The older lady remarked about how fun it was to see "a new generation of RV'ers, young people, on the road" - she said it used to be all 70's + age groups, so we were thrilled to be "youngsters" again! But it was fun to be socializing at the campsites with such friendly people and warmer weather! We haven't been fraternizing outside as much as we'd like due to our wimpy, Georgia temperature acclimation. Close to North Dakota now, another border crossing, and losing another hour tomorrow!