Blogs from Nebraska, United States, North America - page 10

Greenwood, Neb. To Cheyenne,Mo After a pleasant and quiet night we renewed our travels down I 80 on a cloudy and cooler Sunday. Light traffic and only light mist made for a pleasant travel day. We did note the high water of the South Platte River in all its manifestations and fields, ditches and lakes full of water. Some farms were flooded and the crops didn't look good. I forgot on yesterday's blog to mention that we noted Ken Gray Parkway in Missouri, in honor of we don't know who but maybe named for our Florida friend. In Cheyenne we returned to a military Fam Camp we visited once before at F. E. Warren AFB. One has to be careful navigating the base to avoid a 12'4” train trestle but the campground is quiet and secure. ... read more

Nebraska Sandhills Today, I crossed one of the most evocative regions of the entire trip so far, the url=http://www.visitnebraska.gov/things-to-do/road-trips/byways-itineraries/99-sandhills-journey-scenic-bywayNebraska Sandhills. This region is a place for visitors to lose themselves, and possibly find themselves. Here the farms of the Great Plains turn into the wide open spaces of the west. The road starts with a premonition of what is to come. It’s located next to a big rail yard. The rail yard is filled with coal trains. In the relatively flat plains, trains are miles long. The road runs next to a busy rail line, so those trains were passing by on a regular basis. The first part of the road looks like the Nebraska I knew already, flat and covered with farms. Things changed soon enough. The plants disappeared to... read more

Well, after months of pondering my summer To Do List, I decided to throw all caution to the wind and book a flight to Bangkok! I'll be traveling with a UNL student who will be interning for Sapahn (a micro-enterprise organization that connects Thai artisans to western consumers). And I'm going to throw in a good mix of scouting out sites for possible research collaboration and study abroad experiences, too! This time I am hoping that things will be much calmer on the political front and that I can get in some good blogging time. Besides, this time I'm staying for a whole month! So I promise I'll be a better blogger this time! My flight leaves in the wee hours of the morning on July 7. Stay tuned for my adventures... ... read more

Yes, literally in the footsteps - or wagon tracks as it were - of the America pioneers, expanding across the Great Plains and deserts to the valleys of the west, all in the name of Manifest Destiny. We were, naturally, doing things backwards, having started (both in terms of this trip and of life) in the Northwestern corner of the country and traversing eastward, relocating much of our stuff from Seattle back to Kentucky. "Hold on just a moment," you say. "Weren't you living in New York? And didn't you join Travelblog in the first place because you were making an epic cross-country move from Kentucky to Seattle?" How very astute of you, good reader. Yes. We were and we did. But life, just like a neatly planned itinerary, rarely goes as planned. If we're lucky, ... read more

It was nice being able to leave the house at 6:20am and not need a jacket. The driveway showed signs of a rain sometime during the night but the forecast was not calling for rain. The cooler was filled with cheese, mayo, onion, 12-grain whole wheat bread, mustard, and a couple of jugs of Nestle iced tea. The sun was already up when I left the house and drove to the highway and headed north to Omaha. For personal reasons I had cancelled my appointment with the Henry Doorly Zoo but the issues had been resolved late Friday night and I decided to continue with the trip. About an hour south of Council Bluffs, IA, I realized that in my haste of getting everything ready to go, I had neglected to pack the deli cuts in ... read more