Nebraska

Left this morning from Strasburg and decided to take state routes to get to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska instead of driving on interstates.  Was very pleased with our decision.  Rolling hills, up and down, very little farms, mostly wide open grazing land.  Did not see a lot of cattle or horses, I guess since there were no trees, the animals do not have a natural shelter in case of bad weather.  Saw where the roads would be closed in bad weather - the gates are positioned to shut down any entrance onto. Not sure what people do for a living being out in the middle of nowhere.  Have to drive a really fur piece just to get to a store or gas station. Came over a rise and saw the High Plains RaceTrack with motorcycles running around the track.  Middle of nowhere!

Wide open nothingness

Wind Farm

We split the driving, I took the first leg and then Dave took over near Kimball. Came into the town of Brush, Colorado and was surprised at the bigness of it.  Continued north through the  National Prairie Grasslands and crossed into Nebraska.  Saw a really big wind farm, those babies are tall.  As we got within 20 miles of Gering the landscape changed - looked more like the Badlands of South Dakota than Nebraska, what ever Nebraska is supposed to look like.  Had to get on Interstate 80 for a whopping 2 miles, then headed north again to Kimball, Nebraska.  Route 71 took us from a small town about 35 east of Strasburg, Colorado this morning all the way to here in Gering/Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.  We put 194 miles on the RV, was a really great drive.  And because we were on country roads and cannot speed, the 194 miles took us almost 5 hours.  Not bad.

Large sandstone structures as we neared Gering

The campground we are in is a city campground, was surprised to see the Gering Police come through cruising by.  As we look out our side windows we are looking at Scotts Bluff National Monument.  We will visit the park tomorrow and get acclimated.  This was an important stop over for the Mormon/Oregon/California Pioneer Trails/was a Pony Express station/military outpost of the mid 1850s.

Strange - almost looked like HooDoos

And it is very quiet here!  Yay!  The cats are great, Dave is doing great. RV holding up well.