Tonight we are writing to you from Kearney, Nebraska, about 700 miles and 13 hours after we left Plover this morning (5:30 am). As you all in Wisconsin know, it was very windy and cold today, especially this morning. We decided to eat breakfast "in" this morning, and stopped at a nice little truck stop and restaurant in Sparta. We had lunch "out" at a rest area just west of Des Moines, Iowa, and were almost literally blown away by the winds.
We arrived in Kearney around 6:30, and ate "in" at a nice restaurant called Grandpa's Steakhouse.The weather was good, except for the wind...it was very cloudy and overcast until we were in central Iowa, when the clouds finally moved off, the sun came out, and the temperature went up. The high today was 77 degrees in eastern Nebraska. There was quite a bit of traffic once we got to Omaha, and it continued to be heavy on I-80 heading west until we passed Grand Island.
Here are our pictures for today...Enjoy
The wide Missouri (I hope for a better one on the way back):
The Mighty Mississippi:
The Open Road (heading west in western Iowa...note the blue sky):
More tomorrow...we will be in Rocky Mountain National Park in the heart of the Rockies!
Susan, Denis, & Fran
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