June 1, 2015

Finally...we are in June, only 10 more days until we reach Great Falls!!!

We left North Platte this morning at 9:00 am and about 30 miles down the road we crossed into Mountain Time and gained an hour, so it was suddenly 8:30 am and we were making great time!!

Heading west on I-80, we were following the North Platte River, which is also over it's banks in many places. At one of the lower bridges there were some highway workers keeping an eye on the level of the water. There was also lots of dead wood around the standing trees and probably around the supports of the bridge as well.

At Ogallala we left I-80 and continued traveling NW on Highway 26. At Chimney Rock National Monument we stopped at the visitor's center, watched a short film, took some pictures, then ate lunch.

Chimney Rock is one of the landmarks that the pioneers used to chart their course. The route that we were driving today was also the Morman Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Trail, so there have been a lot of people that passed this way in covered wagons. Our ancestor's were brave people!!


Tonight we are camped at the Robidoux RV Park in Gering, NE, practically at the foot of Scott's Bluff National Monument. Out our front window we have a view of the Bluff. After setting up and making a quick trip to the grocery store, we watched a storm come over the bluff. Once again we dodged the bullet, the storm split just before it got to us, with half of it going north of us and the half going south, so all we got was a little rain.