Wednesday morning, we woke up in Atlantic, Iowa to a beautiful, sunny, 55 degree morning. The motel had an indoor pool so my granddaughter got to swim before we left for the day. Once on the road again, we headed for Nebraska. The news said that there had been five tornadoes during the night from Iowa to Wisconsin. Apparently, Wisconsin got the worse of it. We stopped in Lincoln, Nebraska. We looked for somewhere to go to walk around and get a little exercise. We found a beautiful place called the Sunken Gardens. It had some sculptures and gorgeous flowers. Because we are having a late Autumn this year, very few leaves have changed colors. However, this place has so many plants that are all displaying fall colors.

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After a relaxing evening, we left Lincoln and drove to Hebron, where we picked up a Great Dane puppy. He is huge, but only four months old. He was so scared. His tail was between his legs, and he was shaking. We are basically driving the reverse of the route we took to get here. I noticed several things that are different up here from down south. When they are doing construction on the road, they sometimes have something called a zipper merge. The construction is in the middle and cars split and go on both sides of it. Another thing we saw was fields and fields of bright yellow crops. I looked it up and think that it was rapeseed, used to make canola oil. The final thing I noticed is that in the northern part of the country, there are many more traffic circles than we have in the south. I hardly know of any traffic circles around home.