Our first day of the California tour gave us more than enough variety in weather. We drove in really heavy fog to Sioux Falls, it was sunny and in the 60s by lunch in Norfolk, NE, 76 degrees by mid-afternoon (absolutely gorgeous), and then by the time we got to the hotel there was a fierce wind and dropping temperatures.
On our Nebraska I-80 drive, we saw flock after flock of snow geese. Ponds would be so full of them in the water that it looked as if there was not enough room for one more bird. Then the next pond would be totally empty. And another one across the road would again be wing to wing. Perhaps they love socializing more than personal space. We also saw a number of fields with large flocks of sandhill cranes.
A man was fishing in one of the borrow ponds along I-80, a truck was spreading fertilizer in a field and at least one tractor was out in a field.
We have paralleled the Platte River and compared our progress with that of the Oregon Trail pioneers who sometimes walked the 2,000 miles, taking up to 6 months at a speed of 2 mph and in the evenings gathered 3 1/2 bushels of buffalo chips in their aprons to make a bonfire before cooking supper. It really made us appreciate our luxury motorcoach and ease of travel
today.- Laurel Johnson, Tour Director
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