Saturday into Nebraska

Saturday morning, we woke up at Pine Bluffs Distillery and took some pictures before leaving:

Grain storage units outside the distillery.

Back of the distillery building

Gracie parked right next to the field.

Chad had told us that the overhead clearance was 14', but Carl stayed outside to make sure that Gracie made it under safely.

She made it!

We headed east on I-80, on our way to Kearney, Nebraska, where Patti's friend Celesta has recently moved. We parked at Cabela's and Celesta came over to see Gracie, and then take us to visit her new home. It is so NICE! Amazingly large and so nicely laid out!

Celesta took us out to dinner at Whiskey Creek Wood Fire Grill (https://whiskeycreek.com/) for dinner -- they had something on the appetizer menu called "Southwest Tootsie Rolls" ...

We had to try them -- the shape of them is like a Tootsie Roll. They were really good!

We got some pictures together back at Gracie:

Celesta and Patti

Obligatory selfie

We went into Cabela's and looked around at some of the clothes, camping supplies, and hunting equipment...

A tent that blocks 90% of sunlight to keep the tent cooler.

A propane stove much like ours, but...

... it has "Wind Block" -- we need to figure out how to create something that would provide this functionality on our stove. When it is windy, the heating of the stove is severely negatively impacted...

Some of the hunting equipment was in the same area -- an Ozone Closet: "Ozone Power destroys odors in 30 minutes" -- if we had this in Gracie, could I use it instead of the washing machine?

"Wild Frenzy Bugle Tube"

"Imaka da bullcrazy" -- a longrange elk call.

Some of the many, many trophies displayed in the store.

Gracie along with several other campers in the parking lot

Cabela's water tower, since I forgot to get a picture of the front of the store.

When I was looking for a place to stay for the night in Kearney, I looked for a Harvest Host, and there was the "Classic Car Collection of Kearney" -- as I started looking at it more closely, I realized that it was located at a Cabela's and that we may be able to stay at the Cabela's and not feel obligated to visit the museum (it probably would have been interesting, but we wanted to be able to visit Celesta and not feel that our time needed to be taken by other activities). I have heard that some Cabela's no longer allow overnight parking (since they were purchased by / joined with Bass Pro Shops), so I called, and the lady I spoke with said that we were welcome to park in their lot and, essentially, to stay as long as we wanted! So, we decided to park at Cabela's. I had read that the only disadvantage was that there were frequent trains going through, but that the west side of the parking lot (opposite side from the Classic Car Collection) was a little quieter. When we got to Cabela's we drove to the west side, and we were the first rig to park on that side, though almost immediately, a trailer pulled in behind us. Eventually, a few other rigs joined us. We had a quiet night, and look forward to more miles east on Sunday.