Wed, May 13, 2015 STATS Departure: 8:54 AM, mdt, Laramie, WYTime Change: Nebraska. Ahead 1 hrArrival: 6:05 PM, cdt, Grand Island, NEMiles: 407.9 miles Travel Time: 8 hrs. driving time When I was young and something happened to make me sad or angry or upset, my mother would tell me, "Everything happens for a reason." I don't know where you stand on the issue, from divine intervention to “I CONTROL MY OWN DESTINY!” but I have found it to be true too...

Thursday, September 22, 2011STATS Departure: 12:00 noon Breakfast: in the RV Lunch: somewhere along the way in the RV Dinner: in the RV Arrival: 2:30 pm CT, Mahoney State Recreation Area, Ashland, NE Distance: 150 miles Comments: Molli slept all through the night, and so did we. I decided I’d been too hard on her.We really like Mahoney SRA, so we only went 150 miles so that we could stop there. It’s an absolutely beautiful area—we we...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011STATSDeparture: 12:00 noonBreakfast: in the RVLunch: in the RV at a rest stopDinner: in the RVArrival: 5:00 pm CT Windmill State Recreation Area, Gibbon, NEDistance: 160 milesComments: So the dog woke us up at midnight, then again at 4:30, so that she could go outside and smell the night air. She also saw fit to return last night’s dinner onto the floor (too much again?). To provide a reasonable punishment for her, we took her t...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011STATSDeparture: 9:23 amBreakfast: in the RVLunch: in the RV at the Cheyenne Rest Area and Info CenterDinner: in the RVArrival: 4:00 pm MDT Country View Campground, Ogallala, NEDistance: 316 milesComments: It’s Wyoming and Nebraska. We drove. What else is there to say?Oh yeah, the dog had diarrhea last night. Woke us up at 5:30.Was that too much information?

Found the house we lived in when we were in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the first house we bought and we did all kinds of weird things to it – like painting it bright, screaming colors and putting in a corner fire place, covering up the interior window, but not bothering to board up the outside wall. The current owners happened to be there and invited us in to see how it's changed over the last 36 years since we were there. They actually bought the house b...