Desolate Prairie..North Dakota and Montana

There's not much to report these last 2 days-we spent a great deal of time shaving off miles. 840 miles in 2 days. Sights we saw? Cows. Soy bean fields. Wheat fields. Sunflower fields. Not much else.  Our stopover in Bismarck was a delight. Diner food and live music and shooting the shit with 2 great local couples.  One was born and raised in ND-grew up on a cattle farm.  One actually moved to Bismarck from a very small town in Oregon of 40 people.  Seems Bismarck it big city livin!
I got nothing on Billings.  Saw some great caves dating back thousands of years. Made an attemot to look for music tonight.  All that was happening was music bingo,  No clue.
Hotel is ah...clean.  With a casino. Casinos are attached to everything here.  I asked the bartender about a restaurant-she then told me the later it gets here the weirder the crowd gets.  They had an overdose in the casino and robbed a couple of times.  I probably didn't need know that.  I guess the frst clue was the lobby sign tht saif "No Billings residents".  Hmmmm...
Seems Billings is a bit depressed, yet nice vistas.  A railroad town still functioning as one.
Looking forward to the next couple of days in Cody and Yellowstone!