October 2, 2011

I realized this morning that I have missed a couple of days of blogging, so I thought I would try to catch up as Rose drives. We left Toledo Friday morn and headed towards Il. Raining, of course, and very windy. An employee at a rest stop told us there were 60 mph winds from Gary to South Bend and the state police were prohibiting some vehicles from traveling I90. We had intended to get off in South Bend anyway to get the boys t-shirts, so we did, and we even got a glimpse of the golden dome. I decided to stay south so we took 31 south to US 6 and drove west on that for a while and then dropped down to US 30. It was really a thrill to be on these "blue highways" if only for a little while. I remember my Dad taking me to a ND game one cold November day and we drove all the way there and back on one of those two routes. It would be fun to take 30 from coast to coast but it would probably take a year... We got to Barb and Dick's late Friday, had a great dinner and visited with Shelane,Andy, and Harley. dick fixed a wonderful breakfast Sat morning and then we were off. We had intended to drive to Des Moines Iowa but found we wanted to go further and ended up last night in Omaha, Nebraska at a very nice Hilton Garden Inn. We had drinks and pizza (no doubt the cause of my forgetting to blog) and got a good nights sleep. We left early tis morning, stopped and had a breakfast sandwich at McDs, and hit the road. We intend to at least get as far as Cheyenne, WY today, and maybe farther. Weather the last two days has been spectacular, clear skies, no wind or rain. Iowa and Nebraska certainly live up to their reputations as "corn country!" I am sure we have seen several trillion corn stalks, but we are impressed with the sheer magnitude of it all. I think we'll get a Nebraska, corn-fed steak tonight. My mouth is watering already!