Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Up The Missouri Valley

Since I stimulate got several days to provide to Colorado, I decided to follow the Missouri River Valley northwestward to Montana in addition to and then caput southward to Denver.  This volition accept me through or therefore heretofore unexplored country, including western North Dakota, 1 of entirely 2 United States of America that I stimulate got yet to see (the other is Hawaii).

North of Kansas City, Interstate 29 undulates across the hills due east of the Missouri in addition to the river remains out of view.  Nearing Mound City, however, the highway drops onto its wide floodplain, crisscrossed amongst small-scale rivers, creeks in addition to canals.  Once I entered southwestern Iowa, where the river is closer to the highway, a floodscape unfolded, having yet to recover from the saltation in addition to early on summertime deluge.  There, hundreds of American white pelicans gathered on the extensive shallows in addition to clouds of swallows strafed the flooded fields, preparing for their tumble migration.  As 1 mightiness expect, swell bluish herons were likewise abundant along this stretch of highway.

Farther north, equally the Interstate veers away from the river, the late-summer landscape was drier in addition to crop fields dominated the floodplain; rejoining the Missouri at Sioux City, I decided to destination for the night.  Tomorrow, I'll follow the Missouri Valley northwestward to Pierre, South Dakota, in addition to and then N toward Bismarck, North Dakota.

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