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Mark Twain, corn, and Ducks
It is Saturday night - and hotel night again - Duck game, you know. So now in Colorado - after driving all day across Nebraska. Before Nebraska we were in Missouri - drove north to Hannibal - boyhood home of Mark Twain and muse for his Tom Sawyer and Huck characters. Then after camping in Missouri,went through Iowa, because we have never been to Iowa. Saw the miles and miles of dry corn - experiencing first hand what the drought ...
Our First Show On Our Own
... don't usually have but if your from NJ this is no big deal.) anyway he was there because they had a 6th grade student who is obsessed with the man who shot people at the midnight Batman premiere in Colorado. There was a call in that the boy had a gun in his backpack...but it was only a toy gun thank God!! A little unnerving especially since we show a video on three big screens. Everything went off well and some of the ...
Finally made it to colorado
... nerves were shot after the good old Jeep "death wobble" occurred in Omaha. Yes it's an official term. and not fun.
unfortunately the day was spent driving, stopping for gas and eating. no sights seen as of yet. nothing but corn really.
Onto southwest Colorado tomorrow. sleepy time for me. msn for kieran!!
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Onto the Plains
... to have only been in the low 90's for most of the region, but I passed two bank signs, one sporting a 99 and the other a 97. If it's this hot, I won't be camping tonight. Camping on a day that reaches 100 means that, by about 9pm, it will still be dark, but the temperature will likely still be close to 90. What do you do in 90 degrees in the dark? I sweat, itch and curse. If I can find a decent, cheap motel in one of the many small towns on my route east on US 6, I may end up stopping.
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Corn, Love and Bugs
... a bit young and not as enjoyable as visiting some of the other more authentic sites. One site we did make sure we had time to visit was the site where the Ingall's claim was and to see the cottonwood trees planted by Pa. Pa planted the trees as saplings more than one hundred years ago and the are still alive today! We took lots of pictures with the trees. Just seeing the trees still alive and thriving was special. Finally, ...