ACROSS NEBRASKA

Guess where we are? Chimney Rock is so awesome! I can understand why the pioneers were so excited when they saw this famous landmark. We spent our day traveling across Nebraska.

Since we're traveling the Mormon Trail, we're not driving on freeways. Every Nebraska town had cornfields, grain elevators like this, water towers and railroad tracks. We saw so many trains--coal trains and freight trains. They were going both ways.

This picturesque Lutheran Church was part of a large "prairie" museum. It was a wonderful picture of life on the prairie in 1898.


This wonderful little sod house was built for the centennial and is wonderful. They're much sturdier than I'd imagined.
Rebecca Winters died while crossing the plains. A friend of the family scratched her name and age on the wagon tire you see. When Burlington Northern surveyed the land many years later, they found the grave. They re-routed the track and contacted her family who built this lasting memorial to her.

It's been a fun day.