Little RV on the Prairie

Brighton Colorado  to  Grand Island Nebraska  385 miles

Thursday, May 6  2010

Day 41

Nice day for driving, not much wind.  Come to think of it, not much anything. 

This interstate, I76, connects I70 to I80 from Denver to Nebraska in the northeast corner of Colorado.  There's not much out there, in a touristy sort of way.  Cows, there are cows, and grass...the corn isn't growing yet.  Oh yes, there is a river, the South Platte that the highway follows, and a few lakes .  Plenty of those enormous windmills off in the distance too.  And there you have it, that was our day.

We noticed the sky darkening as we neared the Grand Island KOA, around dinner time.  Back into Central Time after North Platte, we'd lost an hour.  Hate giving them back.  We knew there was a cold front on its way, but were surprised that there were severe storms around...it didn't seem warm enough for that.  The severe storms were tracking just a little south of us, thank goodness, because the ones we got were bad enough!

The rain was noisy and the temperature fell.  Had trouble sleeping.  When we awoke and turned the news on we couldn't help but laugh at what was happening.  The temperatures were TWENTY degrees lower than normal and windy.  It was only in the low 40's and with wind chills in the 20's.  Good grief, we seem to bring strange weather everywhere we go.  

Maybe we'd better go home...they say it's getting too hot there....