Lord Ranch Resort Valentine

... rode , or ran through the muck, we even got some mud sprayed on us while sitting in the stands.

It was great evening, and by the time we got back to the RV, we had new neighbours, some real nice people from Colorado, Tim roped cattle and Shanan barrel raced.
Early next morning our neighbours had to get one of the tractors to tow them out, as their trailer had sunk down into the rain softened mud, fortunately we had no problem .

 
 

... 8217;m greeted by the awesome site of the Niobrara River Bridge. I’m camping at the Smith Falls State Park, which is part of the Niobrara Animal Preserve. It seems like there are always insect challenges wherever I go, this time its deer flies and they are big. How big? One just flew off with a small child. Not to worry, I’m wearing my trusty Off clip-on bug repellent like a diabetic wears their insulin pump.

We are on our way to Hannibal, Missouri, our next major stop. After leaving Custer State Park, we stopped in Alliance, Nebraska to see Carhenge. It wasn't as thrilling as I had hoped. In any case, after Alliance we headed east on the ...

RAIN, half the night and all day through the rest of Iowa and well into South Dakota.

the noise came back, ******** the free way. We got off at the first exit, drove in circles trying to get the sound back and as soon as we accelerated good, the front driver's side wheel just grinded. We pulled into a jiffy-lube, where the guy in the floor saw a rusty piece logged in the rotor ...

... for tubing, so we toured the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge. We enjoyed seeing the bison, elk, wild turkeys, and prairie dog village. We also saw red winged blackbirds and Bullock's Oriole -- just like a Baltimore Oriole only yellow and black.

We hiked to one waterfall, but skipped a second when the rain started again.

A storm is coming.We went outside to get all our crops.We took our bags to put the crops ...

After the tornado the wagons had fallen, the trees too! But the worst thing was that the trails where not marcked clearly! Most of the oxen had left. When we where setteled we saw that the tralis where not there.We looked around but that did not help. Everyone started to spred in different directions

... worked it's way down the canyon wall to the river below. Opal did not feel that she could make it down so Jeffery agreed to wait with her while Chris and I hiked down to the river. The hike down was not bad but it sure was rough coming back up. The falls were worth the effort. We then made a trip into Valentine. The fish hatchery was not really in operation so we just drove around the holding ponds looking at the fish. Many of the trees in the ...

... started seeing them after that. We saw 6 more antelope before arriving at Valentine Nebraska. We stopped at the local food market and stocked up on a few things and then gassed up the truck again. Gas was $4.079/GAL. YIKES !!! We then headed back south to Merritt Reservoir State Park. After looking at a few campgrounds we settled on Cedar Bay which only had a couple sites left. We found one with a lake frontage and took ...

The fith day the wagon overturned in a river.The river was so strong it almost swept the wagon away. But since we had three oxen the oxen helped us pull it out the river.After the wagon overturned in the river we countinud walking on the oreagon trail.