Showing posts with label oil boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil boom. Show all posts

Monday, May 21, 2012

The Real Shady Rest!

Maurice Allen
This is the view from my room in a little roadside motel in South Dakota. It was nearly sundown and way too far to the next big city. The rooms were tiny, but clean and comfortable.  I imagine it was used more by deer hunters than casual tourists. Another view along the porch from my room:

Maurice Allen

Sunday, April 29, 2012

NORTH DAKOTA SKIES

Maurice Allen

The most awesome skies I saw on my recent RV trip north to the Bakken oil fields were the ones in North Dakota. The blues were so vivid - with no pollution filters hiding the colors. I wonder if the new industry created by the oil boom will make this beauty merely a memory?