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    Grinter Sunflower Fields

    September 13, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F

    At the recommendation of Dee in the KOA office, we headed out to take in the local sunflower fields. Though past their prime, the sunflowers were spectacular in their multitudes.

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    The drive to Omaha

    September 14, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F

    This was a day where we would be able to avoid all highways. No interstates, no toll roads, only US, State, and County routes. We just set Google maps to avoid highways, and voila! There is a route that takes only a little bit longer. Yet, it takes less gas because to route is more direct and slower. And roads are usually less travelled, traffic slower, the scenery and and the small towns interesting.

    Along the road we often see something that make one of us, usually Heather, say “go back, we need to get a picture of (fill in the blank with: building, tree, bird, river, field, sky, cloud, flowers, you get the idea).” Well, in this case it was a building. As I was looking for a place to park so we could switch drivers, I saw that this very same building had a large gravel parking lot. So I pulled in and Heather got to take the photos that she thought would end up in Life Magazine, or at least on our blog. Twas a very interesting building. I think it might have started its life as a school.

    We passed a vacant gas station with a giant sign “Kickapoo Truck Stop.” I am sorry that we did not get a photo. This is one of those cases where we said “Oh, look! Quick get a picture.” Yet no one scrabbled to get the camera because the visual was so fascinating we just continue staring. It all looked very new, yet very vacant, as if the tenants recently had left, hat in hand, with nothing left in their possession but their name. We think that it was a perhaps attached to the nearby casino run by the Kickapoo tribe.

    Another reason we love taking the back roads is that it gives us an opportunity to see the historical markers. We stopped at a historical marker titled “The Battle of the Spurs.” The event occurred near the marker in 1859. John Brown, 11 freed slaves and 20 some supporters were confronted by a US Marshal and 40 some deputies. John Brown, being fearless, led his group straight at the posse. The posse turned tail and spurred their horse away from the confrontation as fast as they could go. Hence the name: Battle of the Spurs. I personally think that perhaps having a newspaper editor there helped to frame the story. Here is a link to the historical marker (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=127434).    Read more

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    National Homestead Historic Park

    September 14, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F

    We went out of our way to visit this park today and I am glad we did. The park is dedicated to the Homestead Act of 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln. This act gave 160 acres to anyone who could build a house on and farm the land for 5 years.

    The park is at the location of the first homestead land grant. They have restored the land at the park to the tall grass prairie that existed when the settlers first arrived. Daniel Freeman was the gentleman who came and chose this 160 acres to homestead. There was water and a trading road ran through the property. There was much to recommend this location to homestead. Yet life was hard.

    We also visited the Learning Center, which housed a moving display of artwork with text tying the art to the trials, tribulations and joys of homesteading.

    We are probably all related at some level to one or more of these brave and enterprising homesteaders.    Read more

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    A visit to our friendly local hospital

    September 15, 2021 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 59 °F

    We have a fine tradition on our travels, a visit to a local emergency room or urgent care. In this case we decided we would like an opportunity to visit the Family Hospital at Millard. To make the visit more cozy, allowing us to have time to meet and talk with the staff, we decided that a visit at midnight would be just the thing.

    Dang kidney stones!

    I suddenly started getting a pain in by back on the left side about 10pm. It was bad at first, and I was pretty sure it was a kidney stone. I had a kidney stone back in 2016 while visit Laurie and John at Christmas, so I had some idea what a kidney stone felt like. We were already tucked in bed for the night, and I thought I could tough it out until morning. But by 11:30 I began to feel nauseous and wondered if we had a bucket in the trailer. Since the pain had gotten that bad, I figured it was time to see where the closest ER was. This woke Heather up, and after a very short discussion:

    “Gordon, are you ok?”

    “No, I think I have a kidney stone.”

    “Alright, lets go the Emergency Room.”

    I wanted to drive, but Heather decided that her driving with cataracts was safer than my driving in pain. Probably a wise decision. Of course it was because Heather is very wise. No comments about old wives and the such, please.

    So off to the hospital.

    We got me signed in, or at least started on the paperwork. Then the nice lady tried to tell us that Heather was suppose to wait in the car, but maybe it would be ok if she waited in the waiting room. After Heather explained the need for someone who was not in pain to be there to answer questions and to remember instructions, the nurse stuck her head out and said it would be fine for Heather to come on back with me. One of the advantages of coming at midnight when we were the only patients in the ER.

    The nice nurse stuck an IV in me and gave a big dose of an anti-inflammatory. In 15 minutes the pain was very tolerable.

    Then off for a CAT Scan. It was a new machine that took 64 slices at one time. It only took three scans of 6 seconds each and I was done. The tech showed me the scan right there, three or four stones in the kidney and one stuck in the tubes trying to get to the bladder.

    The nice doctor suggested that the best course of action was to let the stone pass and just manage the pain until then.

    I feel better this morning, and am taking comfort from the truism that, “This, too, shall pass.”    Read more

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    The Lincoln Highway

    September 15, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

    Given events of last night, we decided to take it easier than we’d planned. We skipped the Jocelyn Art Museum with its Impressionist collection, and also gave the Laurentzin Park and conservatory a miss. But one thing we felt we absolutely could not miss was a three mile stretch of the original Lincoln Highway.

    The Lincoln Highway, built in 1913, connected New York City’s Times Square with San Francisco’s Lincoln Park. It crossed twelve states and ran 3300 miles. In Nebraska it followed the Great Platte River Road used by fur traders, overland emigrants, and the Union Pacific Railroad.

    In the summer of 1919 Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower led an eighty-one-vehicle military convoy through Ogallala, Nebraska on the Lincoln Highway. The trip promoted the importance of Interstate travel by the military. Later, as president, Eisenhower began the project that continues today of building our Interstate Highway system.

    Also, my book club will recognize the Highway as the northern route mentioned in our read, “West With Giraffes.” The giraffes took the other southern route on their cross country trip to the San Diego Zoo. It’s a wonderful book. You should read it.    Read more

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    Loooooong Day’s Drive across Nebraska

    September 16, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

    Actually, it was about 4-1/2 hours, but being geezers it took us about 7 due to our geezerly travel style and probably the wind drag from our geezer-sized ears. Gordon wanted the flag photo front and center, because it shows the impressive wind that pushed us sideways for most of the drive.

    About halfway, we stopped at the Great Platte River Road Arch Monument. We gave it a quick drive by and decided It looked like a tourist trap, and headed immediately across the ACTUAL Great Platte River to Skeeter Barns BBQ for a delicious chopped brisket sandwich.

    The real highlight of the drive was the Gothenburg Nebraska Pony Express Station, a well preserved house built on in 1854 as a fur trading post on the Oregon Trail. It served as a Pony Express Station from 1860-1861 (the entire length of the Pony Express operation.) It then served as an overland stage coach til 1934.

    We are now watching the thunder clouds approach our overnight stop in Ogalalla while we decide where to go next.    Read more

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    Decisions, decisions

    September 16, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

    Where to go next?

    Estes Park KOA? No spots available. Ft Collins West KOA? No spots available. Ft Collins North KOA? No spots available. Any of the Wyoming KOAs? No trees to be seen. Rapid City KOA? Been there, long days drive if we stop to look at sights.

    Boy, are we tired, but Heather found the perfect place in Scotts Buff, NE. We head there tomorrow.    Read more

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    Torrential midwest rain last night

    September 17, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 50 °F

    There was a brief but fierce downpour yesterday evening, clearing up just as the sun set. At 1am, the storm stretched from here into Canada. (Don’t ask why I was awake at 1:00 am … I’m a geezer…it happens.) But the best part were the clouds lite by the setting sunset that it left behind.Read more

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