Blogs from Nebraska, United States, North America - page 3

Tuesday, 5 September, 2017 From Dubois we drove southeast through the Wind River Valley; through hills and meadows, some filled with sage, others cultivated, irrigated and green with alfalfa. This is hay and cattle country, though horses are plentiful, too, and we spotted quite a few pronghorn antelope. We followed the Chief Washakie Trail to Lander. Then we paralleled the Oregon, Mormon and California Trails, as well as the Overland Stage Route and the Original Pony Express. We crossed the Continental Divide again at South Pass, elevation 7600+ feet. Seeing these hills, valleys and mountains makes you realize just how tough those early settlers were. After stopping for a few groceries in Rock Springs, we drove south to Firehole Canyon campground in Flaming Gorge NRA. We do love this campground. Wed, 6 Sept. We have decided ... read more

This was the second moving day in a row. We are trying to make it back to the Mississippi River and we had a lot of ground to cover. We left at 7:27 AM and 64 degrees and headed out to cover 550 miles. Fortunately, the entire drive was on interstate highways, so we made good time and arrived at our hotel by 4 PM. Today we drove through South Dakota and Iowa, and ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. The drive began in the Black Hills, where the topography is hilly and rocky. It seemed like we were riding though an ancient dried-up riverbed. The land was flat surrounded by hills with smoothed-out vertical ridges, all running up to the rounded top. The grass was a tannish yellow and punctuated by dark green bushed and small ... read more

The day started cool and overcast in Colorado Springs. Philip was up first and walked across the street to a Starbucks while I was waking up and getting ready. He enjoyed the short walk and compared the weather to the cool, soft days we often find in Ireland. Just lovely. We finished breakfast in the hotel—only so-so—and got on the road by 10:00. Mist and rain started soon after leaving the hotel and made the drive through the Denver traffic more stressful than expected. Lots of construction and stop-and-go traffic made the ride slower than expected, too. The drive was north on I-25 to the southern edge of Cheyenne, Wyoming, then east on I-80 before taking off on the smaller roads leading north to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and the sights for today. We drove to Chimney Rock ... read more

Good Morning! We spent the night in Big Springs, Nebraska at McGreer Camper Park which was advertised as a working farm as well as an RV campground. Joyce thought this would be fun for Marc because he is a farmer at heart, but she was not prepared for a cattle farm that lies right alongside of the route I-80 West! The flies were the first clue that this was a working farm! The pics don't really do it justice. But, as we are discovering, there are always positives when you are RVing! The farmer's wife, Nita, was lovely and tried to find every possible way to provide us a discount! Also, she talked to us a bit about their farm and the industry as a whole. Since we had passed a stockyard down the interstate, it ... read more

Geo: 40.1783, -96.0964Sunday morning, Glenn and I had to finish cleaning the Lazy Bear Lodge. We went to bed at midnight, so we needed to do the vacuuming if the den and bedrooms early in the morning. We finished up cleaning the house around 6am and left for Nebraska.Glenn drove from Frisco down I 70. We saw the sunrise. Beautiful.We stopped on the other side of Denver at a hotel there, for me to go to the bathroom. Glenn got a cup of coffee and a muffin, and then I started driving.For lunch we ate at Lincoln Hiway Diner in North Platte, NE. It was about 15 minutes off of the interstate. The food was ok. The place was kinda ratty however there were lots of "locals" there. We shared a "chicken fried steak dinner" plate. ... read more