From: Grand Island, NE
To: Bethany, MO
Miles today: 327
Total miles: 16227
Route US 34 east.
That was pretty much my day today.
I took it from Grand Island, Nebraska, over the Platte River, a prototypical
example of a “braided river.” It is shallow with lots of sand bars, the way it
has been for thousands of years.
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| The Platte River - wide and shallow. |
About an hour later, I crossed the Missouri River and
entered Iowa. I wanted to get a picture
of the Missouri also, but the bridge was long and there was no good place to
stop. This river is deeper and
swifter. The Platte flows into the
Missouri a few dozen miles south of Omaha, but the area is marshy and there is
no town there.
I continued on US 34 through Iowa for a long time. The
terrain was rolling, and there were more trees than I expected, but it was
pretty much all corn fields with some hay and pasture land thrown in. The road passed through or by a number of
small towns, but nothing grabbed my attention.
Is it me? Am I finally just tired
after all these weeks on the road? Or is there really nothing much to see
here? I feel bad just writing this. I thought about a side trip to Des Moines,
but in a web search I couldn’t find anything more interesting there than the
birthplace of John Wayne, so I just kept going.
I got to I-35 and took it south into Missouri, where I am now. Tomorrow I head east again, toward Hannibal,
and then Springfield, Illinois.
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| Iowa. From what I can tell, this pretty much sums it up. |
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