Our goal for the day's drive was to stop driving near the town of Minden, Nebraska. Why, you ask? Toni read the Travel Section of the Washington Post one Sunday last year and came across an article on the "Pioneer Village", a museum with more than 50,000 displays of arcane Americana. It just begged to be checked out.
Check it out your self at: http://www.pioneervillage.org
Leaving Denver, Interstates 70 and 76 share some roadway. When the navigator and the pilot are figuratively asleep at the wheel, heading southeast (wrong direction) on 70 instead of northeast on 76 (correct direction) where the roads split is a distinct possibility. Matter of fact, that is exactly what happened...
8 miles down the wrong road, the light dawned. The navigator came up with a quick solution and we ended up heading east on small roads (the original intention) but being further south. Easy mistake to make?
Kansas has a bazillion acres of nothing. Period. We took no pictures of flat fields of nothing or different burned looking crops. We did take a picture of a blue and white sky. Notice the acres of nothing on either side of the road.
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| A blue sky with clouds in Kansas. Whoopie..... |
We stopped in a small town at what was advertised as a 'family' restaurant in east nowhere Kansas It turned out the only food served was Mexican, so one enchilada and one sopopilla later, we moseyed along (isn't that what you say in the west?)
A left turn further along took us into Nebraska, another state with lots of not much but with some bumps they call 'bluffs'. A tad more interesting.
400 miles, 9 hours in the car and we checked into a really nice Fairfield Inn using our Marriott points. A small mistake to start the day and a good way to end it. The WiFi works just dandy.
Tomorrow is the Pioneer Village (lots of pictures) and then on to who knows what...
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