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...

What better way to spend September 11 than to go to the Strategic Air and Space Museum and spent most of the day looking at airplanes and rockets. It's next door to Mahoney. Later in the afternoon we went to a driving range in the park and hit a bucket of balls. (Really dented up the bucket.)That evening, we went to a melodrama called "The Perils of the Polls" about a hic governor who appears completely addle-brained, but turns out to be the Governator, comp...

Got a late start (again), so decided to put some miles in today. Not much happened during the drive, except for Mitch Hedberg. Almost ran the car off the road laughing so much. You know, it's hard to drive with tears in your eyes. Mahoney State Park is amazing. It’s absolutely beautiful. If I could design a camping experience, this would be it. We may have to stay here awhile. Random Aside #1: I still haven’t figured out how to relax yet. I keep t...