It was a cool crisp Fall-like night last night. Ann turned on her side of the electric blanket about 3 AM!!! There was another huge harvest moon and a spectacular sunrise over the punkin' patch across the street from our campground The pumpkins are a bit difficult to see in the photo. We were on our way to Cheyenne, WY about 7:30 and arrived at FE Warren AFB about 2:30, but we gained another hour, crossing into Mountain Time.
Along the way we observed the flooding of the North and South Platte Rivers from the torrential rains which devastated Colorado. There were farm buildings still partially inundated as we passed by on I80. One farmhouse was totally surrounded by water which looked like it had receded quite a bit already. Fortunately, I80 is elevated a few feet above the surrounding terrain and not threatened by the water.
Nebraska is hilly with lots of open range where cattle and occasionally horses graze. We saw one huge feed lot which must have had well over 1000 cattle. The methane smell lingered for several miles from all the manure.
Kansas is called the Sunflower State as much commercial sunflower oil is produced there. We never saw any sunflowers in Kansas though, but we did see a large sunflower field in Nebraska.
Our bodies still haven't adjusted to the hours we are gaining and we usually are sound asleep by 9 PM.
Tomorrow we will cross most of Wyoming.
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| Sunrise over the punkin' patch in Kirwin, KS |
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| Flooded building on North Platte River near Cozad, NE |
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| Flooded building near Paxton, NE |
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| Very ripe sunflowers in Nebraska |
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