July 21 post - really late!!!

SORRY FOR THE PAST MONTH. BETWEEN TRAVEL AND EMAIL CRASHES, TECH HAS BEEN NOT FUN. 
​I'LL SEE IF I CAN DO SOME DAILY POSTS UNTIL I'M CAUGHT UP!

​NEBRASKA         
Judges 5:6b the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
If you look at a map of Nebraska, you will understand why I picked this verse. If you look at the NW section, there are very few roads, and driving along them (Unless you are on the 2 freeways) is very relaxing as you don’t have to watch traffic. But on the other hand, it’s a long way from anywhere if you have trouble with your vehicle. I was traveling through one time in my 20’s with a type of cast on one leg due to some torn ligaments when I picked up a nail in one tire. I was planning to get to a Mennonite-Your-Way place near Lincoln for the night, so every 15 minutes I’d pull over, pull out my tire pump, and attach it. There was a place to step on to stabilize it, and I could easily do that even with the cast on my leg and pump away to fill the tire again. I soon learned how good people can be. Every time I’d stop to pump, the first vehicle coming along would pull over, and the man would jump out and exclaim, “You have a cast on your foot! Let me do that for you.” And he’d take over. The first time I just shrugged and thanked the man – but by the 4th or 5th time I got a little annoyed. What was it with people that made them think a cast meant you were dismembered or something?! (I know they were being kind, but the cast in no way hindered me from pumping up a tire.) I was petrified during one pumping session when an elderly, very portly gentleman and his wife stopped. He was huffing and puffing so badly I was scared he’d have a heart attack. When I tried to insist I was just fine pumping, the lady declared, “Of course you can’t manage the tire pump. Don’t you see that cast on your leg?” I stared at her, but she seemed to find nothing incongruous about what she’d just said! When I finally arrived at my destination, my hosts were so gracious and took charge of getting the tired repaired for me so I could continue on my (pumpless) way the next day.
The east/south section of Nebraska definitely has more people and things to do, but if you come into Nebraska after being at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota – and are traveling in that southerly direction, make sure to find Alliance, Nebraska. “Carhenge” is worth a stop. It’s a playoff of Stonehenge, but instead of stones in a circle, they have cars. Someone did a neat job of creating this circle of 39 cars spraypainted grey to imitate that famous circle spot of massive stones standing upright in England.

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