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
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