Today we'll be driving about two hours to the Omaha airport and leaving Mom, Dad, and Ben there. Andrew and I will then will hightail it to Denver (about an eight hour drive) and stay overnight so he can fly home early tomorrow morning.Andrew and I will be driving across the most boring stretch of highway in America from about 2pm to 10pm central time. Call me if you're interested in entertaining us!
**Update: Midnight, Mountain Time
Completely exhausted, but great day. Stopped for dinner at a greasy spoon just over the Nebraska/Colorado border. During the last stretch we drove into a storm that was concentrated on our left, but the sunset was in clear skies to the right. That created a huge rainbow spanning across the storm on our left side. It was so bright, so wide across, the camera couldn't really capture its effect. On our right the sun shone gold and green on gently rolling cornfields and cow pastures and we could see for miles and miles out to the horizon. I wish my little point and shoot camera could do those scenes justice.
Then on the way into Denver, after the sun set, we spotted mountains in the distance. I saw them first and nearly scared Andrew into a car accident I gasped and pointed so sharply. I can't wait to see those up close tomorrow.
I'll drop Andrew at the airport early, then do some outfitting (ahem, grocery shopping) here in town and head up to my cousin's in Saratoga, Wyoming. The the plan is to head towards Salt Lake City after visiting for a while. I'm not making too firm of plans though. This part of the trip starts the real adventure.
Miles: 2,771
States: 12 or 13... The state count is now debatable as we drove past a "Welcome to Iowa" sign on the way to the Omaha airport. That makes no sense because we didn't cross the river, which (I'm pretty sure) marks the border between Nebraska and Iowa. But I have driven along three sides of Iowa, so I'm tempted to count it even if I didn't actually set foot there.
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I just looked at the route we took yesterday to figure out the "Welcome to Iowa" sign. The Missouri River is the border between Nebraska and Iowa almost the whole length of the shared border, except for a very short section in Omaha where Iowa comes across the river at Carter Lake. This part is just south of the Omaha airport between downtown Omaha and the airport. That's the way we drove yesterday and we did cross that section when we were on Abbott Drive. You have been to Iowa! (for about 30 seconds).
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