Sept 15, Wednesday

States seen: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa (new),
Nebraska (new) 

We got up and wandered around Fargo a little to get some
more pics and some breakfast. 

I have to say, there was more to Fargo than I
originally thought. It’s kind of a cool little place. That said, I was there at
the end of summer, not the dead of winter, in which case I’d probably be singing
a different tune. But what I saw, when I saw… I liked it.

We headed south on I-29, along the eastern edges of North
and South Dakota,

… and stopped in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for lunch. Then kept
on south on the 29, into Sioux City and Iowa, 

…where we skirted the western edge
of the state along I-29.

We crossed the Missouri River into Nebraska 

…when we got to
Omaha and stayed there an Embassy Suites.

This day too was a shorter drive, so we walked around the
‘old town’, a kind of hip area with shops and restaurants, 

…then went up to a
pedestrian bridge across the Missouri for photos. 

There was also a small museum
with history of the area. It was a large building, which you can see just to the right of center in the photo above. When I walked in, I couldn’t see where one might buy tickets so I asked the lady “So… how do we get in to the museum?”
She looked around and said, “this is it.” 
I told her the building was so big I was expecting it to be a larger museum. She said there were plenty of offices, but the museum, was just what we saw. 

I did my best to engage people everywhere I went. Talk to
them about their lives a little and just get to meet people.

We later went to an impressive Chop house, 801 at the
Paxton, that served up THE finest prime rib I’ve ever had in my entire life.
The Midwest for beef!

We drove out across the Missouri river into Iowa to a place
called Lookout bluff. It was up on a… well… a bluff…. Over the Missouri valley.
From there were were able to get some good shots of the Omaha skyline at night. 

Met a carload a kids smoking pot too, one of which politely offered me a hit. I
declined, and they left.

We drove back to Omaha and went through the city just
looking around at night but didn’t find any really great photo ops.