Vacation road trip progress
We made it through all of Iowa and pretty much all of Nebraska today.
Iowa was pretty uneventful, besides taking a 45 minute or so detour when “we” missed a highway split and started heading toward Kansas City.
Nebraska was more interesting. About an hour into The Cornhusker State, we noticed a large dark storm just a little North of us. We had the radio on and all the stations warned us that a tornado warning was in effect pretty much right where we were, but the storm was heading South East. So, instead of stopping and finding shelter like the radio suggested, I tested the 90mph+ sustained travel capabilities of the van. It did wonderfully, and we probably made up that lost 45 minutes in my hour-long speeding session. Here’s a diagram of how close we were to the actual storm:
Six or seven more hours of travel tomorrow and we’ll be at our destination of Layton, UT.
We made it through all of Iowa and pretty much all of Nebraska today. Iowa was pretty uneventful, besides taking a 45 minute or so detour when “we” missed a highway split and started heading toward Kansas City. Nebraska was more interesting. About an hour into The Cornhusker State, we noticed a larg …