Kimball Nebraska

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Kimball, Nebraska

July 5 2006: Gering & Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. We will spend the night in Robidoux RV-Park operated by the city of Gering, Nebraska N41° 48.757' W103° 40.644' phone: 308-436-2046. They have paved interior roads with concrete pull-thru pads featuring green grass overlooking Scotts Bluff National Monument and the bluffs so often mentioned by travelers on the Overland Trail: 50-amps, water and sewer, $15. Joyce and I generally look for a PPA (Pass Port America) Campground but we did not find one in Gering.

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We headed north out of Greeley on the 5th of July heading to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska where we plan to meet up with the old Overland Trail (Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, California Trail). While the Overland Trail started in Independence, Missouri we are going to start following it west from Scotts Bluff, Nebraska.

We have been traveling north on Colorado State Road-71 through the Pawnee National Grasslands north of Stoneham, Colorado.

 

 

Nebraska state line as seen from Colorado SR-71 south of Kimball, Nebraska

Nebraska state line as seen from Colorado SR-71 south of Kimball, Nebraska

 

 

 

At the Colorado -- Nebraska border we finally emerge from Pawnee National Grasslands.

 

 

An occasional oil well is spotted south of Kimball, Nebraska

An occasional oil well is spotted south of Kimball, Nebraska

 

 

 

The occasional oil well is easily spotted.

 

 

 

 

Near the intersection of SR-71 & I-80 around Kimball, Nebrask

Near the intersection of SR-71 & I-80 around Kimball, Nebrask

 

 

Dry land wheat farming is the economy around here.

 

 


Wind farm supplying Kimball, Nebraska with energy

Wind farm supplying Kimball, Nebraska with energy

 

 

 

Just north of the Colorado -- Nebraska border we cross I-80 and enter the small town of Kimball, Nebraska a town on the cusp of energy independence. North West of town we spot a group of large wind generators perched on a hill overlooking town. Later we read where that wind farm generated power for 4,000 residences.

 

 

Grain elevator along SR-71 in Kimball, Nebraska

Grain elevator along SR-71 in Kimball, Nebraska

Grain elevator along SR-71 in Kimball, Nebraska.

 

Visual evidence of irrigation around Kimball, Nebraska

Visual evidence of irrigation around Kimball, Nebraska

 

 

Around Kimball we also started seeing evidence of irrigation. This field of irrigated alfalfa hay is just one example of irrigation around Kimball.

 

 

 

Dry land wheat farming north of Kimball, Nebraska

Dry land wheat farming north of Kimball, Nebraska

 

 

Not far out of Kimball the area turned to dry farming with grain fields filling the landscape.

 

 

 

 

Dry land wheat farming north of Kimball, Nebraska

Dry land wheat farming north of Kimball, Nebraska

 

 

The two days we spent in Gering and Scotts Bluff couldn't have been any better.

Until next time remember how good life is.

Mike & Joyce Hendrix

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