We said goodbye to Kansas City about 10:45 a.m. and headed north and west. We were fortunate that the humidity and heat of previous days had abated, and so the trip was quite pleasant. Our original plan was to dry camp at the Cracker Barrel in Lincoln, NE but we arrive much too early to get off the road, so continued to the Wal-Mart parking lot in Grand Island, NE. Generally we don't like to camp at Wal-Mart, as truckers also stop there, and they don't turn off their trucks and so are quite noisy. We weren't disappointed -- there were at least 12 semi trucks in the parking lot, as well as 6 of us RVers. It got so noisy that at 11 Jack jumped in the truck and moved us to the other side of the parking lot so we could sleep!
June 25 we continued west and stopped at the Harold Warp's Pioneer Village in Minden, NE. Spent about 3 hours there. There were 26 buildings and 50,000 items in the various buildings. We got to North Platte Holiday RV Park at 5 p.m. and have been busy sight-seeing ever since!
Saturday we toured the Scouts Rest Ranch, the 1886 ranch built by Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and the Lincoln County Historical Museum. Today we went to see the Golden Spike Observation tower at the North Platte railroad yards. The Union Pacific's Bailey Yard is where east meets west on the Union Pacific line and where an average of 10,000 train cars are handled each day on 2,850 acres of land stretching out eight miles! The tower is 8 stories high and enclosed; there is also an open observation deck on the 7th floor for those who want to take pictures.
On Tuesday we'll head into Wyoming to Cheyenne where we'll camp until July 5.
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