Camped in Nebraska

After the first day push to get past Chicago, we slowed down the last couple of days, with later starts and some detours. We stopped at a "Coast to Coast" cg new Des Moine Iowa last night. This is one of those "membership" campgrounds you pay a lot for each year, then camp quite cheaply. Our Passport America membership allowed us to stay there, for $22.20. We sure wouldn't want to buy a full membership! The (usually large) RV's were packed in like sardines in places. Lots of highway noise. We got a pretty good night's sleep though.

Today's drive got pretty interesting, as we drove under a fierce-looking dark cloud giving us lightning, heavy rain and winds. We pulled off for a little while, but it passed through pretty quickly. It made us quite nervous for a while though. We just kept on trudging along Interstate 80, and camped quite early in Prairie Oasis cg, near Henderson Nebraska. Quite a nice spot, not busy yet at least, very pleasant hosts.
The campground office runs a takeout pizza business too, so we ordered one later on. The owner walked it over to our site when it was ready, real service!

Tonight we'll figure out where to go from here. The weather at the Grand Canyon South Rim sounds like it will be pretty hot yet, so we'll likely aim for northern Colorado, and work our way down to the North Rim via Bryce Canyon park. Tomorrow we're planning to visit the Archway at Kearney NE, a pioneer exhibit we missed when we were along this way in 2009.

Weather: 19C at 7am, down to 17C a few hours later under the thunderstorm, up to 29C and sunny later on. 

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