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Crossing the Great Plains
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in the wealthy outskirts of Minneapolis you can find some really impressive properties

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typical american Town Main Street... All about Consume

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No glue whats the story behind this Viking in Minnesota...

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Island in the Storm... Turtle on the Sundeck

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I love this Traktor! More like a racing car

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lot´s of old traktors on the Show

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the most impressive where the Steamtraktors

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kept running with a lot of love

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In the evening the Birds were dancing for me

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Interessting combination of Advertisments. The right one is the shocking one

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Beautiful old Hotelsign in Fargo

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The Theater in the Center of the City

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The Train Station of GReat Northern Railroad is now a Bike Shop

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Invitation to help

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Rad! this Advertisment is shocking. But simple messages sell

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Auction in Town. The local Barber retires and sells his whole collection and shop

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an abandonded Church as a landmark along the Street

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Cycling into Sunset

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Some days I found a real nice campspot. That was one of them

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After passing Bremen I came to Hamberg...

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...or what left of it...

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...ghosttown in the middle of nowhere

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and short after that I passed Karlsruhe (also a german Town)

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Reflection along the Raod

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One day the Haze of the FIres in Montana moved in and gave the day a crazy twilight

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The Newspaper History of New Town

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Nice to read how they sold the Future to the people

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under that bridge was the original location of Sanish

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Like in Alaska! Security at a constructionsite behind New Town

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after Miles of gravel and dirt I reached Williston

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there I had to take care of me and my clothes. both needed a shower or a Laundry

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Nice Shop-Sign

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Hiding from the Rain in the Church in Culbertson

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In the Indian Reservations Christal Meth is a big problem

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this Liqour Store knows how to protect itself

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Backroads with Wildlife

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Roadsign back there... couldn´t see one of the Ranches

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If one appeared it mostly looked like that one

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and then I got stuck in the sticky Montana Gumbo. No chance to go on

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But these two wonderful people saved my day

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the gigantix Dam of Fort Peck, this is just the spillway

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View from the top to the bottom with the Generatorbuildings

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Ranchsign at sunset

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Another wonderful Campspot

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GReat Northern Railway followed me all the way to the west

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Most little towns have not much houses but one of them is a bar

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Roadkills. countless of them along the Road. Just a few of them looked that nice

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another abandonded Church with Cemetery

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Harlem is a very Bike friendly Community

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This plait growes well in that dry country. In the back my first real mountains

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I passed Zurich

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the local bank doesn´t work as well as the ones in the Original City...

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another BAr in Chester

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you can get Lost here in Montana

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travelling Harvesters

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An Elevator. You can see them all along the Railway in Montna

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desperate Country

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A little "we have it all" Shop along the Road

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who stops at a Motel in Galata in the middle of nowhere?

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The Child in me hopped on the Carousel

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they renovated it with a lot of love

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Stayed with Jewell and Cliff for a night in Shelby

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Cut Banks, the coldest place south of Alaska

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Railroadbridge near Cut Banks

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there they are! the Rocky Mountains

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another Elevator in the Eveninglight

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Glacier National Park, that way!

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Coffeshop in the Indian Reservation

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Impressive Clouds over Brownings short before the Hail came down

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going into the Mountains

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reached the Top! Marias Pass is the lowest possible crossing up here in the north

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wonderful LAndscape in the National Park

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MOuntains everywhere

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Evening Mood

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along Flathead Lake

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You can see the roots of the people very easily when you take a look at their Names

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Sleeping next to the Barn

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Big Sky Country

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MIssoula, my goal for that stage

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nice little city with a lot of charme

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the Ticket Booth at the local theater

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Streetmusician

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The Treehouse in the Garden of my Host Bruce