Cedar Rapids to Kearney, NE

We were so sad to leave Cedar Rapids, and especially John yesterday! I have to throw him some major props - he really went out of his way to show us a good time and make us feel at home. And we had a great time! Thanks again, JB! We'll continue working on getting him to move back to CA. :)

I was going to post some pics, but we left the camera in the car... and well, the drive through Nebraska is really boring anyway. It is flat, flat, flat, and surrounded by cornfields for hours. We're about halfway through it right now (in Kearney) so we have even more to look forward to today! Right now we're about 5 hours from Denver.

So far the highlights from Nebraska are:

1. We stopped at a gas station where they had flat screen TV's mounted over the pumps playing Fox News, and then piping the audio throughout the mini mart and restrooms there. You don't see that in Southern California!

2. There were some really cute, big, old barns, lots of windmills, and lots of cows.

3. There was about a 3 mile stretch of road that almost sounded musical. And it was really loud! At first we thought it was something like the Honda Musical Highway but nope. It was just noise!

4. Our hotel is quite nice, and right across the street from a Quizno's (yeah, I'm a sandwich nut). We walked over for dinner last night and chatted up the employees there, who are students at the University of Nebraska extension. They were some of the friendliest people we've met on the trip so far. Oh, and they said the highway doesn't show their state well at all, so we shouldn't judge it by what we've seen from the road. We'll just have to take their word for it!

We got up really late today so we won't be in Denver until this evening (if Aaron ever gets out of the shower that is). We don't really have anything specific planned for the couple of days that we're there, but hopefully I'll at least have some fun pics to post!

Until then...