Roger drove this morning and I drove all afternoon - beginning to feel more comfortable behind the wheel. An easy drive - good roads and little traffic - not many vacationers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska!
Not much to see - corn, corn, and more corn! At least it got greener as we went north with pretty rolling hills and farms - better than brown grass and baked earth!
The Missouri River is flooded over I-29 near where we are staying and the highway is closed for about 30 miles.
103 today and 99 at the campground at 5pm - 10 degrees less than yesterday - every little bit helps!
Can't help but think of Heather and Kyle and the girls - still on the airplane!
Sunday:
Email from Heather - home safe and sound but "wiped."
We started our Lewis and Clark journey "officialy" today by touring the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center on the Missouri River near Nebraska City. They were having a special celebration and had additional exhibits outside.
The keelboat maker had a small cannon similar to the ones used on LC's boats for protection. They often filled them with debris and nails. Roger made a small donation so he could load it with black powder and fire it off! BIG BOOM!! Imagine it did scare the Indians!
There was also a self proclaimed "mountain man" demonstrating guns; traps and pelts of the era but the most interesting was meeting Chamberlin Clark - 7th generation descendant of William Clark - on the left. He and a friend actually made a dugout canoe from a cottonwood tree and are paddling it from Denver, down the Platte River, to the Missouri River and on down to St. Louis. Kinda' scruffy looking dudes but I guess you need to be a little different to undertake such an adventure!
Traveling through Nebraska today to Yankton, South Dakota. Greener and a bit cooler!
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