Goodbye Nebraska

Nebraska.        Another state the name of which will mean something when its name is mentioned at some time in the future.  Strangely when Tom met with our Prime Minister (if you are going to name drop do it big) DC mentioned Nebraska, in fact he said be aware of the big lorries in the state, for our American cousins he meant trucks. Well they certainly are big as are the trains.

In fact tonight we are in Kansas and the owner of the RV site, David, turns out to be a train driver. And don't you remember when all the kids wanted to be train drivers when they grew up, now they want to be David Beckham or Posh Becks. David was telling me how  big the trains are, well without boring it seems the local trains pull between 16 and 25 thousand tons on each run. They can be up to two miles long.

Well here is one against a backdrop of a grain elevator.

(Sorry about the copyright but believe it or not some people steal images off the net)

Rather sadly I find these old grain elevators just amazing to see and to photograph.

So that's the grain but what about the beef. We saw thousands of animals on the high prairie and the sand hills of Nebraska, well I think I can say that at least some of those animals come to Nebraska to fatten up. The 'cattle lot' seems to be a big thing in the state, lots of beef eating as much as they can to fatten up for the table. Vegetarians turn your head away now...

On our way through the state we stayed at a family home of a relation to Alvon, this in Lincoln

Randy and Cheryl, thank you very much for your kind and generous hospitality, it was very welcome.

Kansas later.....B