Neligh, NE

We spent the night in Valentine, Nebraska, after leaving Nisland, South Dakota.
Valentine had some great sites in town.

including handcarved bricks on the outside of the local bank,




The motor home does not stop as fast as a car, so when we see something out the window, it is mostly impossible to stop right then and take a picture. You will have to imagine the shots I missed.... the round bales of hay stacked to form a rocketship, and another stack further down the road to form a bear. We followed the cowboy trail from Valentine to Neligh, and to see a bike rider, and an older couple walking along it with fields of baled hay in the back ground would have said it all. At one point close to Valentine, we were on a bridge, and the view of the train trussel that is now the Cowboy Trail was awesome. Paul offered to turn around for that one, but we would have blocked the road as there was no place fo us to turn off. There was, but we would have still been there trying to get out of it!! (When you see the big truck sign with a line through it, you learn that you don't go there in the RV!)

We arrived in Neligh on Saturday afternoon. We are parked in their city park, it has a very nice campground! Monday and Tuesday mornings, I baked up lots of goodies for Chris's shower, which was a "Tea" on Tuesday night.


Wednesday we just chilled at the park and Nate and Chris brought Angie's girls down, so we went for a walk around the park and found several playground areas,



There were several places destroyed by spring flooding, including a bridge built in 1935, with what is left of the baseball field in the background.

And the bridge with road on the left washed out


then walked down the adjacent Cowboy Trail a little way and saw the Neligh Mill.


Now, it is off to the rehearsal dinner prep!!