Obfuscator writes: How would you like to spend the day in a museum? How would you like to spend the day in a freezer? How would you like to spend the day in a museum that was colder than most freezers? These are the questions you must ask yourself if you are considering visiting Harold Warp's Pioneer Village in the town of Minden, Nebraska and the season happens to be winter. We left our motel in Kearney and headed for historic Fort Kearney, only to find that it was closed for the season. It's probably ok that this happened, since there [View Full Entry]

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Obfuscator writes: We woke up to a thick layer of frost over everything. I guess I should be getting used to this, since it is January. Nevertheless, we're finding that camping in the extreme cold holds very little appeal. I think Onaxthiel spent most of the night shivering. I gradually added more layers through the night, which helped a lot, but made me very reluctant to crawl into the 10ish degree outside in the morning. Being in the middle of a big snow-covered State Park with nothing to see did nothing to encourage us to linger further, so we packed up [View Full Entry]

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Hey all, I flew up north with the Schunks and landed in Kansas City, Missouri before finally arriving in Nebraska. Eric is a big fan of Nebraska Huskers, and as the result, I was introduced closely to the Huskers land. We got along pretty well, considering it is off season for college football - I can't wait until it is starting again in about eight months. Omaha is a cool, chilling town, and it is definitely cold here. At one point it is registered as 15F outside high temp, make me a very happy little southern bird. Until next time, -Cy [View Full Entry]

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Hi all-- I just wanted to drop a quick line to let everyone know that I'll be leaving for France on January 2nd, which is under a week from today. I'm beyond excited at this point. I was really tempted to write this entire entry in French, actually, but realized it would be quite counter productive. So here's your chance to unsubscribe--if you received an email about this post and would like me to remove you from my subscriber's list, please contact me before I leave the states. Or you could contact me anyway, just because you love me and want [View Full Entry]

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George & Darryl visited Taylor NE during the week of November 4th 2007. It was awesome to see them. [View Full Entry]

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Although we were not able to stay very long but there are some of the pics we did get a chance to take at the field meet on Saturday. Unfortunately we had to leave early because Aj was exhausted from working all night the prior evening but it was important to attend and discuss the current issues with roadside trapping and it's status at the meeting.. ( NE falconers were caught in a law change intended for fur trappers that ended up making it illegal to use many of our common falconry traps in most viable/typical trapping areas. Although this was [View Full Entry]

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A few of the cattle growers in the area had a cattle show here are the pictures of the fun.. [View Full Entry]

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I am home. Since returning, I have gotten some emails about where I stayed in Beijing and how to get around, so I decided to post some helpful information for future Beijiing travellers. The Shuttle bus pictures are two sides of a brochure that can take you from the airport to the cool part of Beijing, near Tiananmen square and stuff. The GOTOhotel pictures are the brochure of the hotel I stayed at... highly recommended. 260 yuan per night (with a deposit of several days lodging up front) and it has maid service, a toilet and shower and high speed internet [View Full Entry]

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Mom played hooky from work and we drove to Omaha to visit the zoo. For some reason, my whole family has a love of zoos. Whenever we're on vacation someplace with a nice zoo, we go. Last week I thought to myself, "You know, it'd be nice to go to the Omaha Zoo. I haven't been there for years." The next day, Mom said, "You know, I can take a day off of work. I think we should go to the Omaha Zoo." Weird. But, normal in my family. So, Mom and I packed a picnic lunch and headed out early [View Full Entry]

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We drove through Kansas, which was pretty uneventful with the exception of the sunflowers and the worlds largest ball of twine! NEBRASKA!! First off, I was in three states today that I never thought I would be in: Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska…. There is A LOT of corn in Nebraska! We drove to Kearney (where Jared grew up) and he showed me the house he lived in until he was seven, then we went over to the farm house that he spent most of his childhood in. It was just what I’d imagined it to be…right down to the tire swing [View Full Entry]

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