Trains are really neat to see out West. You can see them for miles and miles and they are super long.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Scenes from Utah
Scenes from Wyoming
Snow fences, we believe to control snow drifts (not exactly sure though).
Windmills we periodically see. Hard to gauge the size, but the blades are in excess of 70 feet a piece.
On the road again
We are on the road again after fueling up the truck and ourselves. The
mountains on our left are covered with snow. It is sunny and 43 degrees
today.
View from the hotel
Looking forward to getting the truck camper and saying goodbye to motels.
Tonight
Incredible night out.
As the sun faded to twilight over the mountains the full moon rose from
behind illuminating the evening.
We are in the edge of the rockies now so elevation comes and goes. With
the elevation the temperature rises and falls. I've seen it fro. 35 to 41.
The moon really makes the mountains look neat.
Friday, May 8, 2009
More info about North Platte Nebraska
Here is a great video with more information about North Platte Canteen.
Farm equipment and fire truck
They had a building full of about 20 old tractors.
1929 McCormick Deering model on steel without lugs
North Platte fire truck
There is enormous farm equipment in Nebraska.
Schoolhouse and Luthern Church
Before the days of laptops, notice the blackboards on each desk.
Trinity Lutheran Church organized in 1891.
Music, barber and pony express
They had a large music exhibit.
Barber shop before Floyd.
Before there was e-mail there was the Pony Express.
Film Exhibits
Movie camera - it was huge!
Old large format camera, probably similar to what Ansel Adams used.
1949 Motorola Golden View Television set.
Lincoln County Museum North Platte Nebraska
We stopped in the Lincoln County Museum that features the North Platte Canteen from World War II. The museum had a lot of artifacts, historic exhibits ranging from the Indians to WWII.
Amazing collection of arrowheads. These were four of about 20 cases of arrowheads.
In Barney and Andy's day this is what Mabel used to switch telephone calls.
Lunch in North Platte
It is FLAT here, it is windy, and there are no trees. The wind is 15 knots
gusting to 25 knots. Sky is blue bird clear, I guess we are on the
backside of a front which makes for tough driving on the plains.
Nebraska
It is a beautiful sunny day here in ?ebraskam 73 with lightpuffy clouds on
a blue sky.
Speed limit here is 75 but with a 10 knot headwind it is tough to tkae
advantage.
The farms here are incredible, both in size and beauty.
Its all over
So you are wondering where we parked, right? The motel parking was full so
we parked at McDonalds behind the motel. I suppose it is intuitively
obvious where we are eating breakfast.
Photo of the fueled up truck eager to go.
On the hook
Stopped for the night in Mound City, Missouri. They have a main street, a
Super 8, and a McDonalds. I'll leave to you to decide where we are
staying. Guess where we are parked though???
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Kansas
There was a huge Bass Pro shops. Aren't they or Cabela's headquartered
here?
Attached is a photo of what looked like the baseball stadium, it was huge.
Traffic lightened after the city. Clear, dry, and 72m
St. Louis
neat was the arch. No time to stop and look for the Eurasian Tree Sparrow,
will have to look for him on the way back.
Illinois
We are now in Illinois and it is sunny and 80 degrees. Somewhere along the way we changed time zones and it is only 3:50. Going to stop for lunch/dinner here before too long. We are about 100 miles from St. Louis.
Photos of Kentucky
Processing Plant in Kentucky
Welcome to Kentucky!
Lots of farms in Kentucky.
There were tons of huge horse farms throughout the countryside. This part of the country is very beautiful.
This is a picture of the Ohio river that runs through Louisville.
Riverboat ride anyone?
Breakfast
for breakfast.
Local conversations are interesting. Attractive woman behind us is putting
the infomercial sale on a guy trying to hire him to sell life insurance.
Up
Clean room with a good shower. I was sure the Moen Posi-Temp would give
the the right temperature as I dialed the shower knob counterclockwise.
And we're off.
the end
I had no idea WV had a city as bit as Charleston. I had no idea that many
people lived in WV period.
Think I could've made it all night but we are going to be driving for 42
hours so take it easy came to mind.
Threw out anchor at the Red Roof Inn at exit 39.
nn
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Big walker mountain tunnel
looks like you could make it flat...
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