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The Southwest up to Omaha

Our first trek out to the Berkshire-Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha. Leer más
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    Berkshire Hathaway, Day 1

    4 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    The meeting is held at the Convention Center downtown, and the first day is a expo of many of the companies that are owned by Berkshire Hathaway. They set up amazing displays and have storefronts where you can browse and shop. Some of the companies represented are See’s Candies, Borsheim’s, Justin Boots, NetJets, DQ, Fruit of the Loom, Dynamax, BNSF, and more than I can remember! It got us both very excited to see the main event tomorrow!!Leer más

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    Two Rivers Rec Area, Waterloo

    4 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    After a 400+ mile drive yesterday, we pulled in after dark last night and settled in. We get to stay here for three nights while we attend the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. It is truly a sight to see: 40,000 people descending on Omaha for the weekend!

    Our campground is a charming park and our site is nearly on the Platte River. We had a great time sleeping in and getting some sun before heading into the city. The campground is surrounded by farmlands and cute barns and country homes.    Leer más

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    Leaving Kansas

    3 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    More wind farms...and the crop is coming in nicely! Eric’s right forearm is going to be stronger than his left from always pulling the steering wheel right to combat the wind.

    We passed through a bunch of cute farm towns on our way north out of Kansas. The coolest might have been Kinsley, known as “Midway USA”. 1561 miles to San Francisco and 1561 miles to NYC.Leer más

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    Boot Hill Museum

    3 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    After taking in the outside of Old Main Street, we explored the displays inside. They had a general store, a saloon, pharmacy, barber’s shop, tons of displays with period rifles and handguns, and even a undertaker’s shop. All of the props on display were authentic and gave a very cool feel to the place.Leer más

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    Gunsmoke RV Park

    2 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Our RV Park was too cute! They had an old west theme going for them, with all the service buildings made up to be old west storefronts. We got a nice spot on the end where we were able to sit outside and watch the sunset and listen to the birds chirping. Spring has just sprung here!

    I loved the patriotic details on the RV that pulled in after us.    Leer más

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    Get the heck into Dodge!

    2 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    We pulled into Gunsmoke RV Park inside Dodge City, Kansas right after 5 o’clock. Glad there are no more time changes on this trip; we were continually falling behind! The RV Park has an old-timey theme with cowboy era wagon wheels and farm equipment as well as all the building resembling an Old West main street (I’ll try to take a photo tomorrow).

    We wanted to see Dodge City itself, so we zoomed around Old Town and found it well-preserved and charming. Many of the original railroad buildings are still in use (repurposed as restaurants and shops), and the buildings and streets are OLD. In the 2nd to last picture you can see the street is ?original cobblestones with irregularities and humps in the pacing that comes with age and heavy usage.

    We are hoping tomorrow to get a chance to explore further before pushing on to Omaha.    Leer más

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    Hello Kansas

    2 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    After our ordeal we finally made it up through the Panhandle and popped out into Kansas. The scenery mostly continued, with cows, wind farms, and grain silos dotting the landscape. The 4th picture is the perfect example of so many small towns we passed through in Texas, Oklahoma, and now Kansas. A large grain silo positioned between the road and the railroad, a train awaits its cargo, and all the while semis are barreling through trying to make good time.Leer más

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    Oklahoma, aren't you glad to see us?

    2 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌧 24 °C

    We turned up to Oklahoma and immediately big fat raindrops started covering the windshield. Within 5 minutes the roads were flooding and we pulled over at a gas station to ride it out. The rain quickly turned into a downpour, and before long the lightning was flashing across the sky directly overhead and the thunder was LOUD. We waited for 20 minutes or so until it died down, then pressed on.

    Unfortunately, the direction we had to head was back INTO the storm, and after about 10 minutes visibility was so bad we had to turn out again. We took cover at a truck stop with other truckers and even a police officer. The lightning was so rapid it looked like a strobe light in the sky, flashing every 1-2 seconds from all directions. The thunder was so powerful our motorhome was rocking back and forth. We checked the weather radar and discovered we were on the edge of a severe super cell thunderstorm with a tornado warning, and we’d have to wait for the whole system to pass over us. It was the craziest lightning storm either of us had ever seen, and later the news reported wind gusts up to 90 mph.

    Needless to say, we did NOT make it to Dodge City at our predicted time! We were delighted once we were able to drive through Oklahoma though, because it turns out everyone driving a passenger truck waved at Eric. How friendly!!    Leer más

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    Goodbye Texas

    2 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    We left our canyon and struck off Northeast, ready to drive through Oklahoma and on into Kansas for the night. The industrial sized farms are so big they have their own signs and streets to direct the semis around. We saw hundreds of oil derricks, painted all colors (my favorite was the green), and flat expanses of crop fields.Leer más

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    Our campsite

    1 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌙 20 °C

    We headed back to our campground while there was still plenty of light so we could enjoy sitting outside with the peace and quiet. It’s pretty awesome because the campground is actually down on the canyon floor, barely visible from the top. The switchbacks in the road are a doozy, but well worth it!

    We had a great time sitting and watching the wildlife and sunset. There was a roadrunner that came right up to Eric’s window and posed for several minutes, then got ran off by an impressive male turkey that walked right through our camp. After the sunset we were able to watch bats swooping around furiously. This place is definitely something special!    Leer más

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    Tyler's BBQ

    1 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    We got hungry for dinner and were headed to the Texas Roadhouse, a popular tourist attraction when we decided we should try a local BBQ joint instead. I pulled open Yelp and three blocks away we found Tyler’s BBQ. And boy were we glad we did! It’s gotta be one of the best, if not THE best BBQ joint in Amarillo. The brisket was slow cooked and delicious and we were super impressed!!

    The strangest thing is that we found out one of the employees used to live in Sacramento...he worked two blocks away from Kaiser in Roseville and painted the mural in the tunnel on the way to Old Sac. I know its a small world, but seriously?!    Leer más

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    RV Museum, continued

    1 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    The most unusual vehicle the museum had was probably the 1948 Flxible (first two pictures), which was used to film the Robin Williams movie “RV” (it belonged to the Gornicke family). Eric and I love that movie so we got a real kick out of seeing it and walking through it!

    All the other trailers and RVs were so iconic; it really seemed like we stepped into a display of Americana.    Leer más

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    RV Museum

    1 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    First we headed to the RV Museum, which brought on Eric’s skepticism when he discovered it was located at a huge RV dealership. Lo and behold, behind the sales office there was a two building warehouse filled with restored RVs, from as early as the ‘30s!

    It was really amazing because most of the RVs were open and you could go in them. They still had the period wood paneling, curtains, fabric, and stoves and fridges. The owner of the museum (who also owns the dealership) had decorated each interior with period accessories like games, catalogs, ice chests, etc.    Leer más

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    Amarillo by Morning

    1 de mayo de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    We wanted to see what Amarillo was like, so we drove through the Historic Route 66 District complete with shops, restaurants, and bars. Next we headed out to see Cadillac Ranch, where multiple spray painted Cadillacs are half buried into the ground. The RV Park next door had an attraction all of its own: the 2nd amendment cowboy (he was 22 feet tall and used to advertise a Texas BBQ steakhouse).

    Along the way we were entertained by the TONS of American & Texan flags, and the quirky gas stations. I was mind-boggled by the drive-through window at the liquor store! Eric was in love with the huge brick home with tons of land.    Leer más

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    Palo Duro

    30 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ 🌙 25 °C

    Arriving at this campground was like a dream. They call it “Grand Canyon of Texas” for good reason. The rocks are red and multicolored, and the deep canyon is covered with trees and lush ground cover. After wandering around having difficulty finding our campground (due to it being unmarked! No signs!!) we pulled into a killer spot with tons of privacy and million dollar views. On the way we spotted a lazy deer, two wild turkeys, and a bunny rabbit (the latter had claimed our campsite for his own). This is going to be great!

    At night we watched a lighting storm in the distance light up the sky. Too far away for thunder or rain, but still fun.    Leer más

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    Canyon, Texas

    30 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    This beautiful town is right outside Amarillo and (I imagine) is named for the Palo Duro Canyon, where we will be staying for the next two nights. They have big Texas-sized houses on big properties with healthy horses. Hopefully we’ll get to see a little more of the town tomorrowLeer más

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    Entering Texas

    30 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    Entering Texas was uneventful at first. We were in town and drove past a road called “Stateline”, then suddenly we saw the small state sign. About a mile down the road we saw a Welcome sign, and then the scenery started changing. The American and Texan flag were flying high over tons of buildings and the cattle ranches were bigger, more organized KFOs (and waaay stinkier). Surprisingly there were more trees and less desert already!Leer más

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    Leaving New Mexico

    30 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    Leaving New Mexico we saw a plethora of local attractions, like the Taco Box, tons of cattle and horses, lots of locomotives, grain silos, and new and old farms and industrial equipment. We saw our first oil pump, which is how we knew we were getting close to Texas!

    Our favorite was a sign welcoming us to Portales that proclaimed “Home of 17,000 friendly people (and 3 or 4 grumps)”.    Leer más

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    Breakfast

    30 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    For breakfast we headed back to our new favorite spot, which conveniently is also a truck stop so we can “fill ‘er up”. Most gas stations have a max limit when using a credit card. At this gas station we had to use THREE credit cards to fill the tank! Then it was goodbye to Roswell and on to Texas!Leer más

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    Robert Goddard

    29 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    We headed next to the Roswell Art & Science Museum to see the display on Robert Goddard, the pioneering engineer and physicist who contributed greatly to the scientific knowledge on building missiles and rockets. His dream was to send a rocket to Mars, and he spent decades finely crafting different experiments here outside of Roswell.

    His work was largely ignored in the U.S. but was blatantly stolen by the Germans to create the V2 rockets they used to bombard Europe during WWII. The museum had a phenomenal display that recreated his workshop.    Leer más

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    UFO Museum

    29 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    This cool museum had the entire history of what happened at the Roswell crash, completely with newspaper clippings, sworn affidavits from locals, and video interviews with people who had participated at the site of the crash and with the cover-up. It was VERY well displayed and we were impressed.Leer más

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    Roswell

    29 de abril de 2018, Estados Unidos ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    We started our day off at a cool little diner, The Chapparal Cafe where we both ordered the Truckers Special (excellent choice). Next we have ourselves a little self tour of Roswell, where we found a UFO-shaped McDonalds and a ton of kitschy stores selling alien gear. We especially enjoyed all the little touches: the alien eyes on all the lampposts and the little green men in random parking lots and gas stations.

    It rained for a couple minutes when we were walking outside and for the rest of the day wherever we drove there were lakes of water covering the streets. All the locals could talk about was how much they needed this rain! California should stop complaining about their drought in my opinion.    Leer más

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