While I was traveling out west, well after Gateway Arch was made a National Park, I would constantly ask Park Rangers why the park’s designation was changed from National Memorial, to National Park. Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity I’ve been to Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, ColoradoĮllensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Doradoīaraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City Hair rich with pomade, the neck of his guitar up around his ear, a slight snarl on his lips – he’s singing to me. I’m almost all the way around the dial, when Johnny Cash comes wailing from the speakers. Friday night lights, horses and my baby left me. Cowboys, pickup trucks, tight jeans and cold beer. I turn on the radio and skip through local stations. Home of the forty-eighth National Park in the lower forty eight states, St. This is a big city rife with big city smells. ![]() I think about rolling down my windows to see if the smell of barbeque is hanging in the air, but don’t. Up with the sun, Kansas City is still asleep as I meet I-70 west. A few miles south in Mound City, I grab a bite at Quackers Bar and Grill, before sliding behind the local Wyndham’s and getting a decent night’s sleep. As a student and lover of the greatest game ever created, I look across the river toward the stadium, and salute Mr. Today the Series is played downtown in TD Amertitrade Park, which opened in 2011. In 2009, the city and the NCAA agreed to keep the College World Series in Omaha for another 25 years. Omaha Municipal Stadium, the first stadium to host, was renamed to honor former Omaha mayor Johnny Rosenblatt, who was instrumental in bringing minor league professional baseball as well as the College World Series to Omaha. It has also been home to the College World Series, each June since 1950. Omaha, Nebraska is about halfway between Wall, South Dakota and St. Near Sioux Falls, Iowa, I-29 turns south and I continue my dance with the Missouri River. Further east, Mitchell, home of the world’s only corn palace, comes and goes. Whitetail and mule deer wander through a land of ruffles and moguls, as cattle drink from sandy-bottomed lakes. Sprinkled with shallow lakes, drained by tributaries of the Loup River and Niobrara River, the great Nebraska Sandhills cover over one quarter of the state in mixed grass prairie and sand. To the south, yellows and browns merge above of the massive Ogallala Aquifer, creating the largest and most intricate wetland ecosystem within the United States. ![]() When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow.”īefore crossing the Missouri River, I-90 skirts the northern boundary of Rosebud Indian Reservation, where Ponderosa pine forests scatter into deep valleys.
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