Rec(r)ap

I'm going to try to do a quick recap of Thursday through Saturday and then an update as of this evening.

Thursday - Saturday, July 3-5. Days 4, 5, & 6. Meet Lonny, Take a Hike, and Eat With the Locals.
We ran into a corn farmer named Lonny Jacobitz Thursday that wanted to walk us through one of his fields and show us how the pipeline construction workers didn't rebuild his terraces right and so his field got all washed out. He was hilarious though he had no intention of it. When he first told me his last name, my immediate though was, "Jacobi...like the French Revolution? How'd crazy French revolutionary types end up in Hebron, NE?" Lonny made sure we knew exactly what was wrong with his field so we could report to whoever we report to.

I also had/got to walk a two-mile stretch one of these days because there was no road access to several sites we had to document. Man, I loved it. It was hot for sure, but I listened to the first part On The Road which takes the narrator through part of Nebraska to Ogallala, where we'll be tomorrow night. It was great to be listening to that while I was working my way up and down creek bottoms and around corn fields and over fences. When I got about half way I was again reminded that I came up here for walks like that. It was great.

Like I mentioned before, almost everyday we've been out we've eaten at some tiny local hole in the wall place in whatever tiny town we were near. Grampa's Crossing and Dick's Place were two of them. Dick's had one thing on the menu when we were there: a hamburger, a hot dog, potato salad, and baked beans. But it was quite an interesting place. They had lots of old antiques in the place. But they also were a general store and a liquor store in one. And the lady at the counter told us that the hot dogs were "the good kind". I didn't know there was such a thing.

Sunday, July 6. Day 7. Take It Easy, but Fast.
Sunday we didn't leave the hotel until 11 a.m. I needed a bit of a break, but we didn't want to take a full break yet. So we left at 11 and because of the scarcity of sites on the section we were working on we covered more miles in half a day than we'd covered any day to that point. Something like 50 miles of the pipeline. It was a welcome advance and showed us that the last three sections appear to go much, much faster than the first. We ended up in Lexington, NE that night and due to late lunches decided to eat dinner at the Taco Bell/KFC/Baskin Robbins/Gas Station. It was a bad choice.

I should catch up to yesterday and today this evening or tomorrow. It looks like we're taking tomorrow off to rest in Ogallala, NE. I need it.

Comments

[thad]

Ogallala, Ogallala golly what a day.

(I know it's oodalolly, but still...)

[Casey]

i'm lost. what the hell are you doing in nebraska?

[Mom]

YOU HAVE MY LINDA RONSTADT CD????! I've been looking for that---

[ICN]

I like to listen to region-specific music when I am out on trips. I hope you brought the boss with you. That'd be a good listen on a dark, lonely night looking out over some Nebraska town.

I didn't know you end up in Wyoming. Say hi to those brokeback boys for me.