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Trip journal 2
9 years ago
We decided to visit a friend of ours Felix, while in Kansas City and after a tasty lunch at Red Robin, we headed out to the National World War 1 museum. We arrived and ventured through the stifling heat inside. It was so hot that they closed the observation platform over heat concerns.
It was a very interesting museum that also handled why the war started as well as the description of life on the front. Perhaps most interesting for me was the story of the recruit who arrived at the station, letter in hand, only to be told the war was over and be handed his discharge papers. At least he still got his pension. Afterwards we dropped Felix off and headed North.
Let me just say that Kansas/Nebraska are very flat and exceedingly dull. Luckily we had pleasant conversation and podcasts to keep us going until we arrived in Sioux City. Tomorrow we head to South Dakota, hoping to make it to Wall, home of the Wall Drugstore(look it up).
Well, we started out early after breakfast at the hotel and made excellent time. Traffic through Sioux City mid morning was surprisingly light, considering the time of day and we were through it in no time and into South Dakota. Now if I thought the terrain was flat yesterday, it was even flatter here. The only thing that broke up the monotony was the vast array of billboards, including one advertising the Wall Drug Store, which was only 200+ miles away.
We managed to make it to Wall around 1:30 and set out to explore it. It's a large sprawling complex of shops, mostly western theme, whose closest cousin would be Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. The place was packed as apparently everyone else wanted to see it as well.
We cut the day short as the weather was starting to look very nasty and headed to Subway for a quick bite. Here we got to experience a piece of prairie life, the tornado siren. The locals didn't seem to concerned, so we figured we'd follow their lead. Phil went out to watch the storm and is pretty sure he spotted 2 tornadoes in the distance. We figured it be better to be safe than sorry and decided to call it an early day. Luckily we did as within 15 minutes a very nasty storm hit. Tomorrow we head into Wyoming and plan to visit Devil's Tower on our way to Yellowstone.
Thus ends Day 7 with only 7 more to go.
It was a very interesting museum that also handled why the war started as well as the description of life on the front. Perhaps most interesting for me was the story of the recruit who arrived at the station, letter in hand, only to be told the war was over and be handed his discharge papers. At least he still got his pension. Afterwards we dropped Felix off and headed North.
Let me just say that Kansas/Nebraska are very flat and exceedingly dull. Luckily we had pleasant conversation and podcasts to keep us going until we arrived in Sioux City. Tomorrow we head to South Dakota, hoping to make it to Wall, home of the Wall Drugstore(look it up).
Well, we started out early after breakfast at the hotel and made excellent time. Traffic through Sioux City mid morning was surprisingly light, considering the time of day and we were through it in no time and into South Dakota. Now if I thought the terrain was flat yesterday, it was even flatter here. The only thing that broke up the monotony was the vast array of billboards, including one advertising the Wall Drug Store, which was only 200+ miles away.
We managed to make it to Wall around 1:30 and set out to explore it. It's a large sprawling complex of shops, mostly western theme, whose closest cousin would be Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. The place was packed as apparently everyone else wanted to see it as well.
We cut the day short as the weather was starting to look very nasty and headed to Subway for a quick bite. Here we got to experience a piece of prairie life, the tornado siren. The locals didn't seem to concerned, so we figured we'd follow their lead. Phil went out to watch the storm and is pretty sure he spotted 2 tornadoes in the distance. We figured it be better to be safe than sorry and decided to call it an early day. Luckily we did as within 15 minutes a very nasty storm hit. Tomorrow we head into Wyoming and plan to visit Devil's Tower on our way to Yellowstone.
Thus ends Day 7 with only 7 more to go.
That's got to be a thing, to show up and be like, go home, soldier. I guess he might consider himself lucky.
Anyway, I'm glad the tornadoes didn't mess with you too much. ;)