Day 7

 

Cheyenne Wyo to Lexington Nebraska

 

 

This morning we pulled out from the hotel at exactly 7:00 am.  First time we've been on time I think.  Our first stop was the historic high school in Pine Bluffs Wyoming.  In a lot of ways it reminded me of our good old NS.  The people who greeted us were so friendly and wanted to tell us all about it.  It seems it had been condemned and the local farmers fought hard to save it and restore it.  Here are some pictures of an awesome building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the gymnasium

 

 

 

This is the ceiling in the gym

 

 

 

 

This is the stage in the theater room, but it reminded me

of the playroom in the old elementary school

 

 

We crossed the state line into Nebraska, and the Lincoln Highway led us through these tunnels under the railroad, they are the original tunnels during the building of the LH

 

 

 

Whoops, kind of blurry, I took this through the windshield

 



 

 

Just after we left the school, we were driving through the town and saw this wonderful little building

 

 

This was an old service station

 

Next we stopped at a car show and they had this cute little grill for grilling hamburgers and hot dogs.  They wanted us to stay and eat, but we were expected in Julesburg Colorado for lunch.

 

 

 

 

And I fell in love with this cute little Studebaker truck

 

 

 

Can you just see me driving this around Coalville?

 

 

Then as we were on our way to Julesburg, we came to a cross-roads where at the time the Lincoln Highway was being decided on where to be built, Denver really wanted it to come through their town, but it was not meant to be.  So originally there were two bill boards put up exactly where these signs were, each wanting you to go to their town.  The town, Big Springs had these exact signs made and they put them up just for us!  We all had to have pictures taken.

 

 

 

 

 

Also in this town was a neat hotel and we were able to go inside. It was really cute and they still rent out the rooms.

 

 

 

 

Close by this hotel, was a building that a local man told Vaughn that had been a meth lab.  The building is next door to the police station and it took about 9 months for them to catch the guy running the meth lab!

 

 

The meth lab building!

 



 There was also a piano repair shop that had about 10 player pianos in it being repaired.  Too bad he isn't a little closer, we could use him.

 

 





 

The piano repair shop

 

 

Our next stop was lunch at the Old Ford Garage in Julesburg, Colorado.  They had some neat things in this garage and the museum next door was very interesting.

 

 

 

 

 

After we left here, we went through several small towns, one of them being Ogallala, Nebraska.  They had asked us to come to a car show and watermelon bust!  This is a car we saw there.

 

 

It is none other than a 1967 Pontiac GTO. Imagine that.  It was beautiful and the guy who owned it felt bad for us when he heard our story. I felt bad for us too!

 

This is the historic Spruce Street Station - a 1922 Lincoln Highway Standard Oil Station.  It has been restored and is now a visitors center.  And yes, that is a real live woman in front in vintage attire!

 





 

 

Then we were off again to our last stop before dinner and our hotel for the evening.  We stopped at the Lincoln County Historical Museum in North Platte Nebraska.  This was a wonderful place, as they had several buildings you could go into.

 



 

This is a house, that was beautiful inside.  It was a "Sears and Roebuck House.  Never heard of that before.  It was beautifully furnished and even had stained glass windows.  And notice the screen door! It also had a beautiful side garden and a carriage house off to the right.

 

 

This was the church, and a friend we met on the tour, Anita Hicks, from Sparks Nevada went inside and played the organ. It was beautiful.

 

 



 

 

 

This was the school. It was very small.

 

 

 

We left for Lexington Nebraska where we ate dinner at Mac's Creek Winery. Yes they gave samples of wine, but we enjoyed a Sprite and Diet Coke, along with a barbecued beef sandwich and several salads.  Then it was off to the hotel and to do laundry!

 

Our day was a very busy one, and we travelled just over 300 miles in about 11 hours.  We even changed time zones and lost an hour. 

 

Tomorrow is a fun day. We will be in Kearney for a parade of all the cars from both east and west tours. You can even sleep in.....we don't leave til 10:30 !!!!!