Church Ladies on the Loose--Day Four!

Woke up in Broken Bow pretty well-rested, ready for breakfast and to move on down the road. I thought I was on a pretty good streak, so for breakfast I enjoyed --

one more chicken fried steak! Are you surprised?! This part of the country really knows how to do meat and potatoes! I'll enjoy them here and get under control again when I make it home tomorrow--so soon???

As we were eating,  a group of guys wandered in for what seemed to be a cuppa coffee group, a men's gabfest. They reminded me of such groups I'd seen in Ravenna and other small towns. Sarah cleverly asked if I could take their picture and charmed them into saying yes! She said the blog would say we met them all dancing last night! THAT would've been fun; they were great guys.

Remember how we drove through darkness yesterday? This is what the car looked like this morning:

It was Bug City driving past all those marshes, though they were beautiful. (The windshield was worse but didn't show up for the camera.)

Broken Bow's downtown area has brick streets! Isn't that cool???? They're really darker than this, but the morning sun reflected off them.

It wasn't too far from Broken Bow to Ravenna, my Dad's hometown, and where Fern and Roy lived until a few weeks ago, and the first place I remember living as a very young child. Eager as I was to get there, the drive took easily twice as long as it should have because I kept stopping to take pictures--like these:

See why it took so long? But we made it:

I think we traversed every street on the west side of town, finally stopping to take pictures of my Grandma's house and Fern and Roy's (though it was once--a VERY long time ago--where my family lived, right next door to Grandma and Grandpa.

Had a poignant time at the cemetery:

My Dad always liked the view from out there. over the hills:

Off toward Kearney now, another ride that took much longer than it normally would, but isn't the country beautiful???!

Anyone know what this is??? We'd like to know.

Made it to the Archway Great Platte River Road Museum across I-80! Very well-done!

Aiiiiiiiieeeeee! be careful Sarah!

We're settled down now in Sterling, Colorado, our fourth state in four days. There are no photos from the time we left the Museum because we were caught in an incredibly dense rainstorm, so furious was it, we pulled off the road and waited a while, because of hydroplaning, the water was so deep! When the rain lessened, we drove, in just a few miles, to a completely dry road! 

Nice piece of meat for dinner tonight.