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A few miles north of 80, just outside of Grand Island Nebraska, is the Stuhr
Museum of the Prarie Pioneer. The museum is cool, but the real fun is the
grounds. Buildings have been moved here from all over the surrounding area. Small
cabins. A whole railroad town. www.stuhrmuseum.org/

Fort Bridger is just off of 80 not too long after you get into Wyoming. There
are restored military buildings and a reproduction of Jim Bridger's trading
post. http://wyoparks.state.wy.us/bridger.htm
Unfortunately, neither the museum or the buildings are open till May, but you
can walk the grounds.

I think you can see cranes along the Platte River in Nebraska this time of
year. If they haven't moved on yet.
http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/guides/migration/sandhill.asp

Deborah in IL


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S.Waynforth

There is Carhenge (http://www.carhenge.com/)in Western Nebraska, but
that might be a bit out of your way. If you are going into to Omaha
Henry Doorly Zoo http://www.omahazoo.com/ is quite good--it has grown
in leaps and bounds since I was a child going around the zoo with my
little yellow elephant key that you would plug into a box and it would
start of an informative talk on the animal in the cage in front of
you. And the best possible place to spend a day is in Omaha, so long
as you can stand the smell of cigarette smoke, The Antiquarium
Bookstore. It has an incredible music store in the basement and books
and an art gallery upstairs and the nicest man in the world runs the
place. Tom Rudloff and his sister started it years ago, and now he
sits in the front window in (well he used to) bear claw slippers and
welcomes customers and talks to friends and smokes cigarette after
cigarette. So if you do buy any books there you'll know where they
came from for a while after. Simon and Linnaea didn't really enjoy
the experience the last time we were in Omaha, but you may need to
have a disaffected quality, or at least a teenage sense of humor, to
really enjoy the Antiquarium. It always feels a bit of home to me.

I couldn't find any good links to the Antiquarium. It is mentioned in
a bunch of blogs and antiquarium.com gets you to a Bill Farmer
memorial. Bill Farmer has a permanant exhibit at the Antiquarium.

It might not be any fun to drive a trailer into downtown Omaha, and
you may just be focused on the last leg of the journey to KC at that
point. There are parks along the Platte where you can camp like Eugene
T. Mahoney state park which is on I-80, I think.

We'll be back in the states this summer making the trek from Minnesota
through western Nebraska (my brother has 200 acres near Valentine) and
Colorado to Albuquerque and then back up through Wichita, so looking
through the sites in the area has me excited.

Schuyler



--- In [email protected], DACunefare@a... wrote:
> A few miles north of 80, just outside of Grand Island Nebraska, is
the Stuhr
> Museum of the Prarie Pioneer. The museum is cool, but the real fun
is the
> grounds. Buildings have been moved here from all over the
surrounding area. Small
> cabins. A whole railroad town. www.stuhrmuseum.org/
> Fort Bridger is just off of 80 not too long after you get into
Wyoming. There
> are restored military buildings and a reproduction of Jim Bridger's
trading
> post. http://wyoparks.state.wy.us/bridger.htm
> Unfortunately, neither the museum or the buildings are open till
May, but you
> can walk the grounds.
>
> I think you can see cranes along the Platte River in Nebraska this
time of
> year. If they haven't moved on yet.
> http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/guides/migration/sandhill.asp
>
> Deborah in IL
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been remo


ved]