Another travel day…but not too far. Only 125 miles. We are camping in Gering, NE, tonight, adjacent to the Scott’s Bluff National Monument and the city of Scottsbluff.

We started the day looking at corn. We;ve seen hundreds of cornfields in the past two weeks, but we had never looked at it up close…

We set out at about 9:45. We retraced some of the route from yesterday’s trip to Ash Hollow. We did see, for the first time on this trip, rectangular hay bales. These are not like the hay bales of my youth on the dairy – they are about the size of 8 of those old bales…

We crossed the North Platte River for the umpteenth time…

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As we neared the town of Gering we could see some of the bluffs in the distance…

We could even see Chimney Rock, the famous landmark that all Oregon Trail emigrants mentioned in their diaries…

The reason for the terrible picture is that the skies are overcast with smoke from the Canadian fires (or, as they call them in Canada, fires..).

We turned off towards the town of Scottsbluff. We parked the Villa and found a good restaurant for lunch: The Tangles Tumbleweed.

We ordered a bottle of Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, and Lynda was happy…

We enjoyed bacon wrapped dates stuffed with bleu cheese, and also duck wonton with a berry compote. Excellent food – we wished we could have ordered more. We have been surprised twice now in Nebraska with being able to find great lunch restaurants…

We headed towards the RV Park. We can see Scott’s Bluff to the west, still overcast with haze and smoke…

We parked the Villa and we are now all hooked up…

The RV Park has very large sites and lots of grass…

We settled down inside and started to think about happy hour when the wind started to blow. Hard. I went out to put down the awnings and I was caught in a deluge… We were hit with a huge thunderstorm! However, an hour later it had passed.

We were joined by another Airstream couple for Happy Hours. He brought a Vodka Gimlet for me to try. Tasty!

Our guests left, and we had a light supper. An enjoyable time was had by all…