Early afternoon on October 22, 2022 at the Nebraska National Forest at Halsey, Nebraska and in the surrounding range land, was like a lot of other days this fall in Nebraska – temperature in the mid-80’s, very dry conditions, and winds in excess of 30 mph. Not a good day for an angry fire anywhere,...
What a ride! Downhill from Alliance to Wahoo over much of the SJNSB! Maybe you’re into running, maybe swimming, maybe hiking. Me – I like cycling, and the state of Nebraska with its fantastic country roads and low traffic is a great venue for that! Email me, or give me a call, if you get...
If you are someone that’s into cranes – the kind that fly – then you should have been in Central Nebraska about the 9th through the 12th of November along the Platte River. I was fortunate to see a large number of Sandhill Cranes in a field next to the river, to compliment the many...
Although brief, I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with this young man recently who had just delivered a couple of his siblings to school behind this 12 year old mare. Not exactly your average school bus:-). Quite a contrast between horse and buggy, and wind turbines. If you care to check out these horizons with me,...
I negotiated the two blocks long gravel main street in St. Libory, NE – the Watermelon Capital of Nebraska – a few days ago and found my tires surfing on a sea of smashed pumpkins. The grain semi’s had already hit town before me that morning, flattening this fall’s bounty of orange fruit, a small portion...
I wondered several times in the last few days – following voluminous snow and relentless, high wind – why I don’t just curl up where it is warm. I guess you just gotta love cows which need feed regardless of snow everywhere in our part of the world this week. The sun’s out, the cows...
We are leaving bright and early Tuesday morning out of Grand Island to “navigate” the underground lake, the Ogallala Aquifer, which is presently the above ground lake in many places! This is an awesome year in the Western Hemisphere’s largest area of sand dunes, the Nebraska sandhills, unlike any I’ve seen. Contact me at 308-379-3261...
I’m ready to shove off to Outstate Nebraska for a spring day of unique adventures! Board the bus at Omaha or Lincoln on April 25th, and strike out with me as we visit unique venues in Central Nebraska including stops at buffalo and cattle operations with their respective new babies! We’ll visit a couple of...
Pardon this lousy picture taken about 20 miles north of the Platte River Valley in Central Nebraska, but, if you look closely near the junction of the jet contrails, you can see a small contingency of Sandhills Cranes circling into formation as they prepare to continue their migration on north to Northern Canada and Siberia....
The bull elk in the center of this picture taken along the Sand Hills Journey Scenic Byway a few miles from my home has been hanging out with this cow herd for several years and avails himself of sandhills grass in the summer and combined corn fields in the winter. Life is good! Complimenting the...
