Vacation 2014

First Wisconsin (and Chicago) trip

McAllen, TX - Lakeside, TX (near Ft Worth) - Topeka, KS - Ft Calhoun, NE (N of Omaha, NE) - Hadar, NE (NW of Norfolk, NE) - Sheboygan, WI
- Chicago, IL - Sheboygan, WI - Iron Mtn, MI - Tipler WI - Hayward, WI - Duluth MN - Merril, WI - Sheboygan, WI
- Springfield, IL - Springfield, MO - Oklahoma City, OK - Hewitt,TX (near Waco) - McAllen, TX

On this trip we towed and used our little RPod trailer

15 Sept. - Ft Worth, TX - Oklahoma City, OK spent night at Topeka, KS KOA campground.
16 Sept. From Topeka, KS swung east into Illinois as directed by the GPS to go north
around Omaha and re-entered Nebraska over a Mississippi River bridge.

Nebraska - - 2014

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The bridge - - - - - - The River

Bridge over Mississippi River near Fort Calhoun - north of Omaha, Nebraska

Fort Calhoun, Nebraska - just north of Omaha

3:30 PM arrived at Pearl Thunn homestead / farm.

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Nebraska farmland just north of Omaha

The drive up to the Thunn farm.
Pearl Thunn is Gerards great uncle Eric Mittelstaedts daughter.

The Lester and Pearl Thunn farmhouse.

looking East - Corn crib on left - the Rpod trailer (Joseph and Pearl) - a tack shed
The house on the hill in the distance is where Pearl Thunns son lives.

Lightening rods on top of corn crib. - Traditional and useful.

Hog barn - south across an open area from the corn crib

The henhouse - located south of the farmhouse

The modern garage.