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Day 5 September 17, 2024 O’Neil Nebraska to Ames Iowa 304 miles

The day started out mostly sunny but ended up mostly cloudy. It had rained overnight but we didn’t have any rain during the day.

The terrain is a little flatter than yesterday and there seem to be more trees. Huge corn fields are everywhere. Only a couple of fields were actually in the harvesting mode. More cattle than yesterday with one long horn steer that seemed to be out of place.

We came to one farm that had a huge amount of big round hay bales. On the other side of those bales were two huge feed lots. There may have been more on the other side of the hill that we could not see. Sure explains why we have seen so many cattle trucks. Numerous other fields had cattle as well just not as many. Most are angus.

We came to a small roadside display of various kinds and sizes of windmills. No sign to indicate it was a museum. All along today we saw the big wind mills that are rotating fairly fast for their size. They should be because the wind is really blowing again today. Even the corn stalks are bending over.

Not much construction today which is nice. Most of the roads were two lane with minimal traffic. But as we approached Souix City Iowa the road became a four lane divided highway. The last ten miles or so of our journey were actually on a freeway with lots of semis.

The temperature was in the high eighties today. The good news is that the car never overheated. However, the passengers were feeling the heat. We almost got out the water spray bottles to cool us down.