For those ever wanting to stay in Bismarck, ND make sure you book in advance. We had the unfortunate experience of finding out too late, every single hotel/motel is sold out. We tried ~30. We have to do with a place out of town. But what does 50 miles matter when we've done almost 2500 in 5 days and have another 1000 in the next couple of days.
The drive in ND is definitely a very real experience of gadlus haboira. Beautiful tree lined highways then breaking into vast expanses of rolling lush hills.
That's besides the highways themselves, two lanes each way, dead flat, straight as an arrow and no cars for miles at a time ...v'dal