Day 3: Big, boring Nebraska

We started out the day in Des Moines, Iowa and passed more cornfields and bright blue skies:

This map at the rest stop showed us near the Iowa/Nebraska border:

This sign says "Mall of the Bluffs" hehe

This is the Missouri River:

Now entering Nebraska!

Nebraska is sunny, flat and full of corn:

This dump truck was pulling another dump truck (on the left):

This was a typical Nebraska rest stop: a tiny building right next to corn fields: 

Route 80 in Nebraska paralleled the old pony express, Oregon trail, mormon trail, and California trails: 

Nebraska license plate!

Here is a typical tiny Nebraska rest stop with just bathrooms and vending machines.  That's my Prius : )

View from the rest stop:

Interesting directions in the rest area bathrooms: 

Behind the rest stop, a sign warning against rattlesnakes:

This sign was behind the rest stop:

Tons of glare, but this says "welcome to wyoming!"

Wyoming had tons of trains carrying goods:

Our hotel for the night -- best western in cheyenne, wy, surrounded by absolutely nothing!

Cowboy boot planters outside our hotel doors:

We ate dinner at a pub inside an old train depot in Cheyenne, WY:

Giant cowboy boots everywhere! This one was in front of the old train depot: