Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tuesday, August 25 - Wilson Island, IA to Hastings, NE




Barb - We journeyed west on Highway 30, then went south and west to Red Cloud, NE. We saw a few markings for the original Lincoln Highway while on 30. Red Cloud is in southern Nebraska and was the home of Willa Cather, author of several pioneer fiction novels. (I had read My Antonia! long ago). We arrived too late to take any interior building tours, but found several of the houses and churches on the walking tour. We headed north to Hastings for our overnight stop.

Ed - We outran the rain clouds to Hastings and arrived while there was still blue sky. We parked in a nice site and set up while listening to the weather radio talk about the heavy rain that was on the way. Nothing happened until about 2 AM when the rain, hail and wind hit. The Hastings area received between 4 and 5 inches of rain in about 6 hours. The area just west of us 2 miles recorded 5 inches of rain before 6 AM. As soon and the rains mostly stopped I unhooked the RV and we headed northwest and to highway 2

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