Leaving St Joseph, MO, this morning, we headed the northern boundary of Missouri, caught the south west tip of Iowa and crossed the Missouri River into Nebraska. We took NE 2 into Lincoln and picked up I-80 for the trip home. Guess we don't need any more maps or directions - it's pretty straight forward going home to Reno.
In an earlier post, I mentioned that there were plenty of corn fields and natural gas plants in the area we were travelling through. This morning as we drove north on I-29 through Missouri, we noticed once again the proximity of grain elevators to the gas facilities. It then dawned on me (who says I'm a little slow) that the gas facilities were really ethanol plants. It explains all the corn fields - it had seemed that there were just too many fields to feed cows in the area.
As we crossed the Missouri River, we were steadily climbing as we drove through Nebraska and into Wyoming. From an elevation of around 600 feet, we climbed to nearly 8000 feet at the Lincoln statute between Cheyenne and Laramie. It marks the highest spot on I-80 which I always thought would be in the Sierra Nevada, but is actually here in Wyoming. Crossing Nebraska on I-80, we crossed the Platte River. Reminded me of the saying about the Platte - It's too thick to drink and too thin to plow.
Arrived in Laramie around dinner time - neat little university and Cowtown. Had dinner at the Altitude Brewery in town and had a great time talking with the staff about the history of the brewery. Fun evening.
Heading out tomorrow and think we'll probably make to W. Wendover in Nevada which will get us home sometime Monday evening.
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