This may be the last post
Will someone PLEASE take the keyboard away from this guy, he just keep yapping and yapping about nothing.
9/18/2020
This will probably be the last post until we leave Indiana sometime in October.
When you change time zones don’t forget to change the clocks. Or you might end up like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland crying I’m Late, I’m Late.
Pulling out about 7:30 we drove around 291 miles and dropped down to around 1833 in elevation. About 1/2 of the drive along hwy 20 was through what they call the Nebraska sand hills. Just like a roller coaster it was up one hill and down another.
From what we read the Sandhills are good grasslands for cattle and we seen several.
Today was a travel day and we didn’t take any pictures of note. It was all 2 lane through the hills and large fields with a few small towns tossed in here and there. We didn’t cross anything I would consider a river regardless of the name followed by River. No senic views or anything like that. Heck there were very few places to pull off and most of those were in small towns.
If it wasn’t for the semi’s, 5 or 6, hauling some kind of big round thing, we would have met more RV’s than anything else.
9/18/2020
Last night we stayed at a town park in the town of Ewing, we pulled out about 9:00 and drove 156 miles and crossed the Missouri River into the state of Iowa.
We stayed in Ewing mainly to go to the Ashfall Fossil beds. GRRRRR it was about 20 miles to get there, it’s also getting late as in probably nearing closing time. We get there and to get in you need to make a reservation on line. That’s the second time we have come across a public place where you needed reservations to get into. The first one was Rocky Mountain National Park. While we were in Rawlins WY we were about 100 miles from the park, Luckily, I discovered that little bit of important information without making the 100 mile drive. I couldn’t believe my eyes when it said you needed reservations, made 2 days in advance I think, to get in the park.
One thing we really noticed today as we pretended we were on a roller coaster again was to the West the corn is, as a rule, much drier than in the East. And the hills today were not pasture but fields of corn and soybeans.
Waiting on this one road to pull out, we waited on 3 big windmill fan blades to go by, a little later on they were stopped along side of the road at a gas station.
Today also marks the first time we got on an expressway since entering Nebraska and that was just 5-6 miles. We drove around 620 miles of 2 lane roads in Nebraska, the expressway is actually in Iowa.
Nearing the Iowa border and the Missouri River we left the rollie pollie hills and dropped down to a wooded valley, then we were on the bridge. Yikes we were on the bridge, now this was not nice wide concrete bridge, no, it was really skinny and metal grate that had us floating all over our lane. I wasn’t complaining when we reached the other side.
We’re going to sit tight at this park for 3 nights as there in some “expected” windy conditions for the upcoming weekend. Our spot overlooks the Missouri River, if we had been sitting here back in 1804 we could have watched Lewis & Clark pass by.
9/19/2020
Well I scored some Big Red this morning but it may have cost me my life. It seems that someone in Iowas it a tee total absolute beyond a shadow of a doubt IDIOT!!! I don’t know if it’s the government or the local store owner but somebody is. The grocery store didn’t have ANY kind of mask policy. Besides Mary and I I only noticed 2 other people with mask on. Not only that but there was nothing marked about 6 ft distance and there were no partitions at the checkout counters. I just hope nobody in the store was contagious with the COVID-19 virus otherwise we may all end up dead and that would really ruin my day!!! Rant over for the next 5 seconds or so.
Before going to the grocery we made a stop at the Lewis & Clark State Park. It’s a small park with a full campground. Anyway they have a replica keel boat like Lewis & Clark used. Unfortunately it was out of the water for the season, on a trailer, it was up to high to see into the boat.
It’s about 1:30, I’m setting outside hidden from the wind, watching the river. It has a pretty good current the wind is blowing upstream and every now and then creating small whitecaps that don’t move.
Finally
The End
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