We remember Nebraska for its tornadoes and friendly people. We knew about the tornadoes before we arrived but we did not expect to experience 7 in almost as many days. The worst was when we drove from Alliance to Chadron, (see Carhenge below).

We entered Nebraska at Omaha and headed for the Louisville State Recreation Area in Louisville, on the River Platte. Population about 50 so nothing much to see or do. On our way to Minden we went through Lincoln, with its pretty treed downtown area, the city hall is a skyscraper which looks like Howard College, (the main University Building in Durban, South Africa), but between 35 - 50 stories high.

Our next stop was Minden, one of the most interesting places we saw anywhere in the USA. I love museums and old collectibles so Minden is the place. Attached to this museum is a good campsite which cost us $36.90 for 3 nights including 1 ticket into the museum.

Shortly after checking in a very loud siren sounded, Yvonne rushed to the office to check what it meant - it was only a practice tornado warning.

The tickets one buys for the museum allow entrance as many times as you like for the duration of your stay at the park, so we spent 3 days in Minden, spending most of our time in the museum village, with its hundreds of cars, aeroplanes, boats, engines, outboard motors, tractors, old American buildings (yes, buildings), early American collectibles of every conceivable type. It really was like going back in time and most nostalgic - we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in Minden, and the Pioneer Village Museum.

We rode our bikes around the small, neat typically mid-west town and saw a Ford garage called Big John's Ford, and as we needed a service and the air-con repaired we stayed an extra day to have the work done.