Our last few days in the USA were spent road tripping through Nebraska – which was a hidden gem in our opinion. We didn’t really hold any expection of Nebraska, we were just going to have a night to break our journey back to the airport. However, we ended up enjoying it so much, that we spent an extra night there!
Our first night was in Chadron, which enabled us to visit the very interesting museum of Fur Trade. After an evening in Chadron, we counted for a further day in Nebraska.
Museum of Fur Trade
We made our way to Carhenge, a wacky sculpture made out of cars made to look like Stonehenge. This small site was an ideal place for a car picnic, which we enjoyed before a walk all around the site.
Practically across the road was Debbie’s Frontier Town which was a remarkable collection of shops and buildings moved to Dobbie’s and restored and presented in his back garden. It was just brilliant to spend some time here enjoying what was a great historical museum really.
We then made our way to Scottstown, via Chimney Rock, an interesting geological formation which is so well loved by locals. Visible for miles, Chimney Rock was more than a wonder of nature. It was also a significant landmark in measuring the emigrants’ progress west. This natural feature was a “grand and splendid object” to emigrants who had never seen the geology of the American West.
Our overnight accommodation was in Scottsbluff and here we enjoyed one of the best meals of our 3 week trip, at The Power House in Scottsbluff.
The next day, we took some time to explore Scottsbluff National Monument, which is situated on the historic Oregon Trail. The visitor centre here was very interesting and we really enjoyed our time here.
Soon though, it really was time to continue south, and so we made our way back in to Colorado- passing through the most amazing storm. Our final night of the tour was spent on the outskirts of Denver in Fort Collins. Our guidebook suggested a visit here to see a historic downtown, but honestly, probably because wed had 3 weeks of such iconic and wonderful traditional towns, we were slightly underwhelmed. Perhaps we had burnt out, or maybe it was the absolute stench of weed – but to us Fort Collins was merely a Uni town – a base for us to repack our cases and get flight ready – we did manage to stop at the designer outlet, but even that didn’t come close to others we’ve visited.
We had covered over 4000 miles in 3 weeks, and were completely and utterly overwhelmed with what we’d seen and covered. The trip had completely blown us away.
I will write up a complete user friendly saveable trip itinterary for those who are interested and publish that soon!
Until then though, Take Care and thanks for joining us.
Until Next Time
Lx
