{"id":438,"date":"2008-08-29T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:46:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:46:50","slug":"montana_to_murdo_south_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/montana_to_murdo_south_da\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana to Murdo, South Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up at sunrise in the Middle of Montana to the sound of a vehicle passing on the gravel road close to the tent. Two minutes later the vehicle returns and a man yells &#8220;This is private property, get going.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd so we did, and continued across the never-ending rolling ranches and farms that is South Dakota.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-CRW_2089.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" alt=\"red truck parked on side of highway with fields in background\" \/><br \/>\nSouth Dakota.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-CRW_2092.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" alt=\"man standing in field\" \/><br \/>\nWe stopped for lunch in this rancher&#8217;s field. A woman soon drove by to ask us who we were looking for. Apprehensive, she let us be, but didn&#8217;t care for us to go exploring any further.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-IMG_0071.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Newspaper box\" \/><br \/>\nThe Country Singles newspaper is $1 and is available at every single rest area in South Dakota.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-IMG_0072.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Newspaper box\" \/><br \/>\nSouth Dakota Stories, a four-CD audio overview of state history. We saw a sign that said &#8220;Free Tapes&#8221;; turns out it&#8217;s $20 to &#8216;borrow&#8217; the CDs at any major government rest area. Return the set to any other staffed rest area to get  $15 back. Kind of a cool system.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-IMG_0073.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Check your mileage device\" \/><br \/>\nAlso at rest areas: analogue mileage tables.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-CRW_2096.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Old farm house in sunset\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-CRW_2100.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Old farm house in sunset\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/america-CRW_2106b.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" alt=\"Old farm house in sunset\" \/><br \/>\nWe stopped for gas in the middle of South Dakota. The gas station&#8211;and town&#8211;was long out of business, but the view from this bluff, with an abandoned grain elevator, was sweet.<br \/>\nWe ended up at a campsite in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=murdo+south+dakota&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;ll=43.895047,-100.713301&#038;spn=0.02004,0.036049&#038;z=14&#038;iwloc=addr\">Murdo, South Dakota<\/a>, where we also patronized a biker bar and had a beer with a slice of orange in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up at sunrise in the Middle of Montana to the sound of a vehicle passing on the gravel road close to the tent. Two minutes later the vehicle returns and a man yells &#8220;This is private property, get going.&#8221; And so we did, and continued across the never-ending rolling ranches and farms that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}