Tuesday-August 1- Day 42-A Long but Enjoyable Driving Day

We awoke at 5:45 to the sound of trains passing by

 and soon hit the road on this bright sunny day!

As we headed east in Nebraska we again drove through farming country. 
The green irrigated fields were a stark contrast to the dry grass fields. 

This is flat country and we saw a lot of bushes and trees 
planted along the edges of the fields, as a wind break.

Western Nebraska offered us straight flat roads for many miles.  The skies turned hazy as we drove east, creating a perfect driving day!  No hills, no curves, no wind  and no sun in our eyes!
And hopefully great gas mileage!

And then we saw something we had never seen before and only heard about....LARGE cattle holding pens, which went on for what seemed like a half a mile. We would not even have had to see it with our eyes! We smelled it with our noses!
There must have been thousands of head of livestock in there!

There were very few bodies of water as we drove, but we frequently passed windmills.
(and a few cell phone towers😏)
Modern technology vs. old-fashioned technology.

I suppose by now you know I enjoy seeing the cattle on the range!
(and farmers in the field!)
Brings back sweet memories!

As we got into eastern Nebraska the flat roads turned into hills. We passed through York County, Lancaster County, and saw familiar town names on signs, such as Hershey, Palmyra, Talmage.
We cut across the corner of Iowa and then hit Missouri. ,

The roads in Missouri are very "hilly", which is hard to see in this picture.
 Here we are passing through Kingston.

After a nearly 600 mile day we arrived at Marie's sister place,
the lovely home of John and Anna Campbell. It was soon time for supper. Homemade pizza, and fresh things from the garden were on the menu tonight, with peach cobbler for dessert!  Delicious!

Can you tell they are sisters? and that they are happy to be together again?