La Quinta Inn And Suites North North Platte

... it was onto  the largest railroad bailey station in the world, imagine 300 miles of track and the yard was 8 miles long, there were thousands of carriages and engines in this area all viewed from a especially constructed tower, 8 stories high. Now Brent is no train boy, although he did have a train set once in my life, but this really was interesting. 
I stayed in the car!!!
 

We left Omaha in the  morning and decided to travel the back roads that most closely followed the original settlers and their wagon trains as they headed west. In the  evening we arrived at Kearney and stayed at a very nice state park adjacent to the old fort.Nebraska is already surprising us, and we are thoroughly enjoying our time here. 
So the town is called Kearney but it is pronounce ...

... stopped near a town called North Platte, which holds "Nebraskaland Days", an annual festival celebrating all things Nebraska. Unfortunately, we arrived too late at night to attend the "Buffalo Bill Rodeo" and the "Antique Tractor Show".

... out about pets and WIFI. Too much work after almost 400 miles of driving, so I'll post this as soon as I can do so tomorrow. I left Waterloo, IA this morning and drove west on I-20 to Williams, IA and then turned south on I-35 to pick up Hwy 30 (The Lincoln Highway) at Ames, IA which is where I left Hwy 30 to go to Minneapolis. I stayed on The Lincoln Highway through the rest of Iowa and on into Nebraska, but chose to leave it and drive the interstate, I-80 ...

aka beat feet. 577 miles today. **VERY** windy all day. made for tough travel. Last 120 miles after dark when calmer. Also been very cold, high barely over 50. Hot shower was in order fer shur. only a couple pictures, will post tomorrow good night.

Okay, we were running late and the drive was long. We lost a trailer tire on I-80 and promptly called U-Haul . . . they said they'd call back with an eta. After 45 minutes, I called THEM back and while I was bithing at the service person, they finally called me back with an eta of 1-1 1/2 hours. I told them there was an infant and small child in the car . . . didn't make any difference. I called On Star who hooked me up ...

I wasn't too happy about having to fly into Denver(which was snowing) and then drive 3 hours and 40 minutes but I made it to North Platte. North Platte is your typical small hard working American town. Interesting facts about North Platte is that Buffalo Bill had a ranch here and Union Pacific has a bailey yard here that happens to be the largest in the world.

Day 2 Total miles traveled:1,271 Miles traveled today: 647 Total hours spent in the car: 20 Hours spent in the car today: 10 Number of prong horned antelope seen: 4 Once we left Salt Lake City, it didn't take us long to drive the rest of the way through Utah and cross the border into Wyoming. Wyoming was beautiful, but......simple. It mainly consisted of flat grasslands with mountains off in the distance (the grand ...

We expected to see our fair share of livestock on this drive through the Great Plains states...but we also had a few surprises. So after (a rather disappointing) lunch in North Platte, we read through our list.... "OK, so we saw llamas, goats, cows, horses, deer --" my eye catches on a farm we're ...

After being treated to eye candy that was Colorado, we drove towards Nebraska which was as flat as could be and as visually mundane as could be. Cornfields everywhere. As both a joke and an experiment, Armen and I taped some footage of places we passed for KAAJ. Upon reviewing it later, it seemed as if every segment were taped in the same place, as there were no visual markers to tell the ...