Day 18 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game!

Thus far...The best campground we have stayed at!

I know it doesn't look like much but when was the last time you traveled across the country with a trailer in-tow and stayed at RV camp grounds, Hmmmmm?  That's what I thought!  So, we got pretty excited about this one and all the grass!  Kids, sorry you missed this one.  The glow in the dark Frisbee would have been awesome here!

So, we hit the road again around 11am this morning, heading through the last part of Iowa and into Nebraska.  I haven't been to either of these states so checking out this part of the country is very interesting to me - wasn't the last "Bachelor" from Iowa?  Maybe we should do a drive-by!  Just kiddin'!  Ok, he WAS pretty cute, I have to admit!

Given that Shale gets VERY anxious when we cross state borders and I yell, "Hey, the state "welcome" sign is coming up"....it is a really good thing that the Nebraska sign was NOT on the side of the road.  I think the fact that we were "going to be flattened" yesterday in Iowa was enough to make me thankful that I had to think fast to get this pic!!

Hello Nebraska!

Onward we pressed into Nebraska, the Corn Husker state.  You would think that having five full days (well, really 4 days since we spent day 5 (Sunday) visiting with family in Indiana) would be enough time to make it to our Thursday destination without any stress!  NOT!!  Shale is a bit on edge at this point, and honestly...I don't blame him.  Driving with the Airstream behind us is to say the least - nerve wracking.  Today the weather has cooled down quite a bit and it was windy.  I know that he was stressed driving and that doesn't make for a very "fun" time on the road....take this into consideration when you get ready to hit the road!  I am serious, pulling this trailer is a chore for sure and I am really thankful that HE is driving and not me at this point!

Nebraska is nice!  Lots of green rolling hills and farms.  The clouds and sky today looked
like a painting.  Lots of flat land for farming though like Iowa...just not 
as much corn..  Nebraska is the Corn Husker State so they obviously help Iowa out!

The kids had some fun today!  Grandma and Grandpa took them all to a Louisville Bats baseball game.  The "Bats" played the Indianapolis Indians at the Louisville Slugger field.  Because of the rain Louisville has been having, they almost got rained out but luckily....the rain let up and the game was on!  They told me it was a blast!!  It looks to me like Grandpa was in his element...who doesn't love a Brat while watching a baseball game?!

Shale and I pulled into Sidney, NE around 11pm!  It was late and we were beat.  The only place to set camp was at a Cabela's campground.  Yes, Cabela's (the outdoorsmen's mega super store)  had a campground right next to their retail store in Sidney, NE.  We pulled in to find that they had spots with "electric only" left.  Fine....we'll take it.  We decided that we really didn't need to take showers anyway in the morning since we had taken showers earlier today and we'd done absolutely nothing but sit in the car all day - I am good with that!  It started to rain as we got situated and it is cold....MUCH colder than anything we have experienced on the trip so far - I think it is about 50 degrees!  Yes, jackets are required!  The funny part about this particular stop is that when we pulled in and I opened the door to the trailer....there was kitchen crap EVERYWHERE!  I am not kidding you.  Two of the kitchen drawers decided that they didn't want to be drawers any longer and all the pillows on the "sofa" joined the contents of the kitchen drawers on the floor!  Agh!!!!!!!  YARD SALE!  The photo below only shows PART of the mayhem!

Seriously??!

I touched base with the kids even though it is an hour later in KY than it is here currently.  They are having a blast and I don't think they miss me much.  Oh well, I miss them!

On to Wyoming tomorrow....making tracks across the US - Until then.....