Day 148 – August 5 – Somewhere in Nebraska

Well, I found out what the sheep in yesterdays post are – female Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep.  They had a display in Cabela’s store of mounted animals, including one like we saw.  Most of the animals had tags identifying what they were, but that mount didn’t have a tag, so I asked the girl at the Customer Service desk.  She looked and said she was not sure, so she called someone, they didn’t know.  She then went to find another employee and he didn’t know for sure but said to ask two other employees.  She tried to call one but didn’t get an answer, so she said she would be right back and after a minute or two she said they are female sheep.  So that mystery is solved.

We spent most of the morning taking it easy and then shopping in the Cabela’s store.  We pulled out of the campground about 11:30 and stopped for lunch before hitting the road again.

Our goal was Kearney, Nebraska and we arrived, after a time change to Central Daylight Time, about 5 o’clock.  We could not find a place to stay – it was really hot and we needed electric hookups for the A/C.  So we drove on east and finally found a place about 20 miles west of Grand Island.  It is not much to write home about – a run down motel (the name was simply “MOTEL”) with an attached campground that just might be in worse shape than the motel.  The price was right and we have full hookups, so it is home for the night.

We are getting close to home now and we both have mixed emotions.  The trip will come to an end, which is sad.  But we will get to see the grandkids soon (oh, and our kids).  We are still a few days away.