Sound asleep and get woken up by scraping noises and the truck bouncing. I woke Greg up (of course) and told him somebody just hit the truck so he gets up just as the guy knocks on the door to tell Greg he hit the trailer. Greg goes outside and sure enough the guys trailer is on ours. He pulls forward and there goes the screeching again and the truck rocking as he pulls away. Greg said he didn’t hurt anything. The guy backs in again without hitting us this time. Good grief. All of these trailers have scrapes down the side where somebody has rubbed up against them. They aren’t usually going fast enough to do real damage when backing. We saw a guy the other night go too fast while turning and not wide enough and just nailed the guy’s trailer on the end. He didn’t even slow down. Just kept going like it didn’t matter. At least this guy came to the door and apologized. Now to try to go back to sleep.

Alright. All ready to start the day at 6:30 AM. Greg has his coffee and I have my Diet Coke and off we go.

We hadn’t been on the road but just a few minutes when a coyote went streaking across the highway. Man it was fast. It ducked right under the wiring in the median and kept right on going. Fortunately not a lot of traffic yet.

We drove through Missouri, Iowa and in to Nebraska.   Nebraska takes their corn seriously.   There is a busy town and right beside it would be a huge corn field.   Apartments, restaurants and then more corn fields.   I guess if you have an empty spot you put corn in it.   The part of Nebraska we are in is rolling hills.   It seems real congested here which is different than what I thought it would be since Iowa and other states around it are so sparse.  Of course, where we came in may be the hub and outside is more corn fields.   Maybe will see tomorrow.   We are headed to Waterloo, Nebraska.

We went by a corn field and there was a bird tornado.   Thats what it looked like.   There were so many birds and they were taking off and landing and swirling around.    Wow!

We have done a lot of sitting around and napping again today.   Got to Truck stop, Sapps Brothers, around 4 pm.   We are leaving about 2 am to go to Waterloo.

Sapps Brothers takes their truck stops seriously.    It has lots of knick knacks and stuff like that but the bathrooms have bidets in them with heated seats.    Fancy!    You need the heated seats here.  It is 12 degrees and the wind just cuts right through you.

Well, turning in.   2 am comes early.    Goodnight y’all.

I’ll make this quick since I need some sleep.  Came across the Missouri River a couple of times.  This is along the Lewis and Clark trail.  It is something to see that river and the surrounding landscape and to think of those explorers seeing this for the first time.  The bridge across the river from Iowa into Nebraska is a toll bridge with these two old ladies sitting in the booth collecting tolls.  $5.00 for the truck.  Not bad as tolls go for these things.  But the guy at the place where I dropped my trailer wondered why I wasn’t routed from the interstate which is about a quarter mile from where we were standing.  This GPS system really needs an update.  It brought us across the toll bridge, through town, when we could’ve taken the interstate all the way.  Jeez.  Oh well, good trip all in all.  The other day we see a roadrunner and today we see a coyote.  I tell ya, he looked like he was chasing the roadrunner as fast as he was going.  The bird tornado was really something.  The pictures don’t do it justice.  It was really amazing.  I have never seen so many birds in one place and swirling like they were.  There has to be a name for that phenomenon.  Not long before that we saw what looked like Canadian geese except they were much higher than I had ever seen them flying and in great numbers.  Amazing sights almost every day.  What a country we live in.  Just wonderful.

Well, that’s it from the road this day.  More tomorrow.  Good night and God bless.

BIrds

Poultry or some kind

What the heck?