Day 7-June 5



A day of travel.  We did take a short break in St. Joseph to tour the Pony Express Museum.  It was very interesting.  We also took a stroll around the historical district and saw the Patee Hotel that has been turned into a museum and the house where Jesse James lived when he was killed. After a nice little picnic in a nearby park it was back on the road. The beautiful rolling farmland of Missouri soon became the gently rolling farmland of Nebraska.  It really is an area of the country that is pleasant to the eye with its Cottonwood trees lining the many streams, rolling bright green cornfields, and silos standing beside the well kept farms as far as the eye can see.

We were going to stop at a state park in Nebraska City but the Missouri River is flooded and the campground is under water. Since we are not living in a boat on this trip we thought it best to keep moving.  Drove through the middle of Lincoln with the tallest capitol building I have ever seen on the left and the University of Nebraska on our right.  Just west of town we found a very nice state park at Pawnee Lake.  We have definitely found some very nice places to place our temporary home.

The flooded Missouri River.