This morning we started once again early to make the most out of the morning cool. We leave Cedar Rapids, IA and follow the Lincoln Hwy through the never changing landscape toward the state line to Nebraska. But this road will not end, and so we run through more corn fields, and more corn fields, and another set of corn fields. It is soooo exhausting since nothing changes, and concentrating on the road becomes more difficult with every mile. And then this sweet smell of the processed corn, I can’t get away from this fast enough. We pass the Lincoln Statue in Jefferson, IA, and some road side art installation near Dunlap, IA, before crossing the Missouri River at Blair, NE next to the old railway bridge. But all hopes that the scenery will change now are quickly taken away as also in Nebraska the road and landscape continue as before. Even worth, I measure a 17 mile straight stretch of road between Columbus, NE and Grand Island, NE without the slightest directional change, plain straight. Very exhausting doing that in the 100+°F of this afternoon. As our concentration is tested to its max we decide not to force it and call it the day in Kearny, NE. We made some good mileage today and with another day like that we shall have our rest days at Lake Tahoe, CA in the pocket.
Here some impressions from a rather none spectacular ride:
"Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska." - Poe Ballantine, Fiction and non-fiction American Writer
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