Williston, ND -- Trip Planning, Laundry, and Blog Updates

Now that I've finished with Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Williston has become the staging ground for the next leg of my trip, and a point of decision. I've been looking at possible places to go and things to see.

The two basic options are to go west into Montana or north into Saskatchewan. The weather in Canada is still pretty warm, except for at night, but it gets cold here at night, too. I liked the drive I took across southern Canada about 10 years ago, so I'm leaning towards drving north into Canada.

I haven't been to Calgary or Banff, and I could possibly see them on this trip if the weather holds out. I'll have to watch the weather.

Even though I still have a few days of clean clothes left, if I'm going to Canada, I decided I should do a batch of laundry today, so I don't have to deal with converting dollars into Canadian quarters in a Canadian laundromat.

I drove to one of the two "Bubba's Bubbles" laundromats in town, to check it out. It hadn't crossed my mind that some of the men working in the oil fields would be bringing their greasy, oily clothes to the laundromat, and that the grime could affect future loads in the machine, so I was happy to see that the laundromat has signs telling which machines can be used by the oil workers and which can't!

The washers and dryers in one section are off limits to the oil workers.

Greasy and oily clothes can be washed using the machines in another section of the laundry, and those machines are also clearly labeled.

Unfortunately, the "Bubba's Bubbles" laundromats don't have wifi, so I couldn't update my blog while my laundry was running, but I can live with that.

After my laundry was done, I went to the Williston Community Library to update my blog. The library closes at 8 pm, and I still had updates to make after they closed. The library's wifi signal is strong enough to reach the parking lot, so I sat in my car in the parking lot and continued with my updates.

I actually worked pretty late. I wanted to fill my gas tank before I leave for Canada tomorrow morning, and Love's Travel Stop has the best gas prices in town, so I drove to Love's to fill up. There are a lot of cars and trucks in the Love's parking lot tonight, and the cashier said I can park here overnight, so I'm spending the night at Love's instead of driving back to Walmart.