Medora, ND

Okay, so with a stop over in Miles City we arrived in Medora, ND on Thursday, August 25th. The golf course there had been devastated by the flooding of the Little Missouri River. They had only nine holes available to play - six from the front nine and three from the back. The holes that were open were quite good and very scenic. A lot of the back nine was along the river but the bad lands holes, higher elevation, were open and quite challenging as you will see from the pictures above. We stayed at the Red Tail Campground and had a nice spot but I forgot to get a picture, sorry. You've got to love a town with three ice cream stores! We were able to visit the Theodore Roosevelt National Park while in Medora and the scenery was spectacular as I hope you can see from the pictures. Alex took the tour with us and we all had a great time watching the buffalo and prairie dogs go about there lives. Alex was very curious about all of the critters and watched them intently! We had one day of rain which allowed us to catch up on our reading a bit and enjoy some refreshing rain. We watched all of the news about the flooding in the north east from the hurricane and sure wished some of that water was in Texas. Our lake is now down over six feet and I am sure there is no water under our boathouse now. We had planned on heading north to Ray, ND to play The Links of North Dakota and then head south to Nebraska to play at Sand Hills G.C. Unfortunately the folks at Sand Hills decided that they didn't want me to do a Golf Digest visit as their new policy was you had to play with a member or be sponsored by a member. Since I don't think I know any members there we had to re-schedule several days of our trip but I will get to that next.