07-May-2000 -- My roommate decided he wanted to
spend the summer with his fiancee in Bismarck, ND. I agreed to help
drive his car from our house in Anchorage, AK. down the Alaska Highway
to North Dakota, some 2800+ miles. We left at 9pm on Thursday and
crossed the Canadian-U.S. border at North Portal, ND. 5am Sunday
morning. My girlfriend picked me up near Minot to take me to Billings,
Mt. where I would catch a plane Monday morning and be at my desk in
Anchorage by noon, before anyone really knew I was gone. Shortly after
switching cars I turned on my GPS and we had just went by a confluence
point. We backtracked a short distance on ND 1804 to Buford and turned
north on Williams County Rd 5. Just over a bridge that spanned the
railroad tracks we turned into an approach to some fields. A short walk
into the fields brought us to the point. My fourth visit to a point in
North Dakota and quite frankly they all looked the same to me.