At 7:45am we were on the road leaving Laramie, Wy. and continuing east on I-80. A little less than 100 miles of travel until we were in Nebraska and the plains. There were many meadows with blank angus cattle as well as fields of crops. We followed the Platte River much of the way. Just as we were about to go off the highway at North Platte there was an accident – a SUV pulling a travel trailer (Air Stream?) was laying on their side in the medium strip and 2 people were on stretchers being placed in ambulances
. We sure hope no one was seriously injured. We did stop at North Platte to get lunch at a Perkin’s restaurant and to refuel at a Conoco station. We then continued on to Kearny, Ne. where we are staying tonight. The Great Platte River Archway Monument allows overnight dry camping .
We stayed here several years ago and since campgrounds are somewhat scarce in Nebraska we are back here. We did go into the museum to be sure we could stay here for the night but we did not go through the museum this time. Before dark we did walk around the grounds and crossed the Platte River to a “Learning Trail” that spoke of the early settlers and the Indians of this area.
The trail is 8 miles long, needless to say, we did not walk the entire trail just a short segment of the trail. It is cloudy and we were told in the museum that storms are predicted for tonight and tomorrow. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that nothing too severe occurs. The winds today were strong making driving somewhat difficult for Tom. Truck traffic has been quite heavy on I-80. We totaled 374 miles today and we crossed into Central time from Mountain time. Tomorrow we plan to be in Iowa.
