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Day 4 September 16, 2024 Chadron Nebraska to O’Neil Nebraska 250 miles

Quite the thunder storm blew through last night. Plenty of thunder so the lightning was somewhere. The rain came down pretty hard for a short period of time. Surprising though the car didn’t show signs of much rain. No puddles on the inside. The skies are blue and the air is rather warm for this time of day.

When Rob took the suitcases out to the car he found a note on the windshield. A retired Navy person had parked next to us last night. He left the note on the windshield that said, “Too bad you are Army but the car is great.”

We did our usual stop for gas and as we left the GPS said to continue straight for 249 miles. We followed her guidance and then turned into the hotel parking lot.

Today’s drive was much the same as yesterday. There were flat sections and rolling hills. Trees were rare except near towns or farm houses. The fields contained mostly corn, beans, hay, sunflowers or cattle. Based on the number of silos grain is out there somewhere also. One of the pastures with cattle had a few long horns. They must have been young because the horns weren’t super long.

Traffic is relatively light which is nice. Most of the semis are cattle trucks. Not much construction which was nice. Not many towns and the ones we did go through were very small. Most populations were under 1,000.

By afternoon the blue skies had turned to clouds. They looked like rain was soon to follow. The wind picked up too. It never did rain so that was good. We arrived at the hotel about 4 pm. Not a bad day’s drive.The murder mystery audio book made the drive seem shorter. Unfortunately the end of the book never matches the end of the drive. But, stay tuned maybe tomorrow we will know the rest of the story.