Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nebraska. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Rockies and Great Plains roadtrip, 2015 part 6: Mt Rushmore to Denver

THURSDAY JULY 30, 2015

TL;DR - See Mt Rushmore and then drive south through Nebraska to catch a flight in Denver.

Theme songs:
  • "Mountain Town" (South Park)
  • "Get Out of Denver" (Bob Seger)
Weather: sunny all day

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Rockies and Great Plains road trip, 2015 (intro)

Back in 2011, I was going to be laid off in mid-year and so I put together a cross-country road trip that would hit 10 of the 11 states that I still had not visited (Alaska was not feasible on this trip). My final plan was that I was going to drive over 4300 miles from Houston to Salt Lake City, UT (new state #1), and then hit in order Idaho (#2), Oregon (#3), Montana (#4), Wyoming (#5), North Dakota (#6), South Dakota (#7), Minnesota (#8), Iowa (#9), and Nebraska (#10) before driving south back to Houston. That would have taken me over 4300 miles and at least a good 3 weeks of leisurely driving and stopping wherever I wanted to (but no deadlines).

How to find someone in the 1940 Census

I posted this on Facebook in April 2012, not long after the 1940 Census was released. I rediscovered this post in November 2020 and figured ...