Holiday Inn Lincoln - Downtown, Ne

... Also, I'm beginning to realize its not just PA that smells like a big pile of manure but pretty much every gas station we stop at. Can't wait to get to those mountains!! Lincoln was a ghost town when we got there not much to do or see. The hotel was similarly empty. My extremely exciting day came to end with a viewing of part I of the csi trilogy. I bet you can hardly wait for tomorrow's update...<br>

... monogramed JD towels and wash cloths would look good in any Master Bathroom.<br><br>Once I put my tongue back into my mouth we headed west along I80. At Des Moines we cut down I35 to route 34 then south on 59 and back west on 2 into Lincoln, NE. This is the real America, where real people do the real work. Where homes are seperated by vaste fields of grain. Where towns are few and far ...

Alright, i'm still at home and getting ready to go to the airport. My nerves are shot and i'm kinda sad that i'm leaving everyone for 2 weeks!! But it's going to be amazing and i just know everyone will be reading this and commenting to keep me happy and entertained... RIGHT????!!!!!<br><br>Also, i will miss my cats. ;)<br>

Well, it's been a long time planning and it's almost here. I've got only 46 hours left before i leave for France. I do hope you'll join me on my 2 week excursion to Europe. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you may even be appalled, but in any case you'll have nearly as much fun as me (ok, let's be honest, not even close, but you'll be alright). Talk to you soon!!<br><br>TTFN <br>

... Then there's the mental preparation. We're going to be gone for a year or so. To put that into perspective, tons of young adults study abroad for a year. It's nothing! But I have had bad dreams where we leave too soon with unfinished business, forgetting to empty the apartment, cancel our lease, forgetting my bag of clothes, or the netbook. <br>Then I had a good bye dream. It was very moving. <br><br> It's hard to believe it's happening. <br> <br>

... walking around and realized that it must have been move in day recently because there were kids everywhere. We spent some time on their strip and then decided to keep driving instead of staying the night there. We have a long drive to our next stop, Boulder, CO.

Miles driven: approximately 15 around town<br>Weather: warm but rainy until late afternoon. Beautiful late afternoon -sunny skies high in the 70's.<br>Wildlife: zero<br><br> We started the day off dodging raindrops, but luckily by late afternoon the weather decided to cooperate, allowing us just enough time to get outside and take in a few sites of downtown Lincoln, the capital city of Nebraka.<br> We ...

... visit with Sally. She enjoys living in LIncoln again. Some of the town's features she likes include the many parks, walking trails, and an excellent public library system. <br><br>It was wonderful to be able to sleep in, if just for an extra two hours. I left Sally's house at the extremely "LATE" time of 10:30 am to head east toward St. Louis.

... Italy pulled up on the sidewalk as well to do the same thing :o) These guys were riding Route 66 from LA to NYC. A sunscreen can (self spray) that I brought along and stored in my rear storage case deployed while we were riding and made a complete mess. Took me a while to get it cleaned out :o( We ended the day at 10:15pm in Lincoln, Nebraska at a Sleep Inn ...

... where you can take the controls of a fighter plane, Lee had a go on this and impressed the man looking after it with the amount of times he went inverted. He commented that it had been so fully tested in a long while! It's been unbelievable hot today, 110f, which is just too hot to do anything really. So it's a good job that the places we have been had air con and were inside. We drove to Lincoln and stopped at a very cheap Econo-Lodge near the airport. The ...