Wednesday - driving across Nebraska

Sunrise welcomes us this morning as we got ready to pull out of our campground 40 miles east of Des Moines Iowa. 

Driving across the plains of Iowa, there's not a lot of different landscape to see. But I did enjoy seeing the different shades of green. 

Then we saw this huge windmill right along I-80. I knew they were large but this made me realize just how large. 

Driving across Iowa, we looked at the sky. This looked troublesome, but didn't get much rain. We think it went north. 

Now we are driving across Nebraska and coming into the Sandhills. The Sand Hills are mixed-prairie on grass stabilized sand dunes. These cover over a quarter of the state of Nebraska. 

I love the golden wheat fields next to the blue sky. 

Lots of these fields as we crossed the WIDE state of Nebraska!

When we got out to get gas, a blast of hot, oppressive air hit us - 104 degrees!  Back in the air conditioned truck we went. 

Look at these gorgeous bluffs that are now in the landscape near the border of Nebraska and Wyoming. The pictures taken from the truck just don't do it justice but we'd never get anywhere if I kept saying "stop, I want to take a picture!"

Look at that speed limit!  If Bill went that fast, we'd be filling up with gas every 2 hours instead of 3.5. 

More bluffs in Wyoming called the Pine Bluffs because pine trees are going on them. 

Just pulled into the Laramie KOA campground. Time to get some dinner started and hopefully take the dogs for a walk. 

It cooled down in Laramie to about 80 degrees, a lot easier to breathe.