Road Trip Day 3 - October 11

Left Kearney Nebraska at about 9:00.  We stopped in the little town of Aurora, Nebraska for breakfast at the Early Riser Cafe.  This reminded me of Jessie's in it's haydays.  There were the same older farmers sitting around having coffee and the same older waitress taking care of everybody (very good waitress, though)

Eastern Nebraska was much prettier than Western Nebraska. There were a lot more trees and it was not so flat.  Along the way, we saw a town named "Henderson". 

We crossed over to Iowa about 12:30.  In Iowa we went past the Rolling Hills wind farm which had about 190 windmills.  It is the largest wind farm in Iowa which has a total of 12 wind farms.  We also drove past Desoto Iowa which was the birthplace of John Wayne (Made me think of Mike Braegger who would have been excited about that.) 

We then entered Minnesota about 4:39. 

We stayed the night in Faribault, MN which is about 50 miles south of Minneapolis. 

Today we were in 3 states Nebraska (The Cornhusker State), Iowa (The Hawkeye State), and Minnesota (Land of 10,000 Lakes)  According to the internet there are actually over 11,000 lakes in Minnesota. 

Another interesting tidbit of information is that not every state has a marker or sign saying you have entered their state.  You have to really watch the mile markers so you know when you enter a new state.