If ever there was a night for perfect sleeping, it was last night. The weather was perfect. All of the windows in the camper were open and the freshest breeze that you could imagine. Unfortunately, Judy’s neck hurt her all night and I was up quite often with my head cold. My sinuses would not stop running. I would shove a piece of toilet paper up one nostril and the other one would start. I shoved toilet paper up both nostrils and my eyes started running. This is how I woke up this morning.
We took our time breaking camp and headed out on today’s journey. We didn’t cover much territory today. As we got closer to Omaha, we saw a sign that said scenic overlook so we pulled into the area to see what we could see. The first thing that caught our eye was this tall tower. We figured this would be our exercise for the day.
In the next picture, you will see flood waters from the Missouri River. They have had extensive flooding in this area.
This was approximately 2 miles from where we were and it was 10 miles from the Missouri River. It had overflown that much. As we left the scenic overlook, I realized that we needed gas so I pulled into the closest station. This particular station had been completely flooded out in 2007 and they were not taking any chances this time.
Continuing on North, we came across several places where they had to sandbag the sides of I-29 to keep the river from completely flooding it. It was weird driving along with sandbags on both sides of you.
The weather played havoc with us today as the temperature reached 96 degrees. I knew as bad as I was feeling that I would not have enough energy to set up the camper so I talked Judy into staying in a hotel tonight. I will get some Ni Quil and try to get a decent nights sleep.