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| From 2007 USA Elises |
The Gas Lite Motel was in our guidebook and seems to be quite popular, and she told us of a number of celebrities that have stayed there, including some big movie stars and that band Limp Biscuit or whatever they are called. It's a really nice place and if you ever find yourself in western Wyoming then stay there :)
The remainder of Wyoming and Nebraska didn't offer too much to write home about. I amused myself mainly with the road signs and place names (see the gallery for some of those). I think that it would be almost impossible to fall asleep at the wheel in Nebraska though as the rather pungent 'farming smell' keeps one quite alert. The generous 75 mph speed limit also helps cross the state. For this part of the journey lots of old British Indie music was my audio entertainment: Ride, The Wonderstuff, The Family Cat and Inspiral Carpets. Great stuff.
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So I quite enjoyed going through Nebraska, but I couldn't help think that it must be one of the worst states for Elise ownership. Highway on and off ramps are the only corners we encountered. Admittedly we were only on the highway but saw no real evidence of anything too exciting road-wise off of it.
Jared and I have split the leading/following pretty evenly throughout the trip, and we keep together quite well, but today I noticed him lagging behind once or twice. I finally radioed to him to see if he was ok, only to find out his radar detector had been going off so he was being cautious. Apparently I was either bait or a sacrifice as he kept me in the dark about this!
We got to Omaha in the early evening. It's a place I knew nothing about, other than 'Lady Fanny of Omaha' from the brilliant Michael Caine and Steve Martin film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I know it's a remake, but have never seen the original, so I have no idea whether that line was in the first one. We had planned to stay there overnight but after consulting the maps, and given we had to make it to Chicago the next day decided to grab a snack and head onto Des Moines, Iowa. We left Omaha with me knowing nothing about it other than 'Lady Fanny of Omaha' from the brilliant Michael Caine and Steve Martin film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Oh they have a mall there.
Darkness was setting in at this point, and we made one of the few night time legs of the whole journey. I am a big fan of night time driving, and I find the music I listen to changes when doing so.
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As we were going through a rural area with little light for about two hours it was a perfect drive to listen to a classic album. I consider Jeff Wayne's 1978 musical version of War of the Worlds one of the greatest concept albums ever. A superb orchestral rock album with Richard Burton's haunting narration. It is best enjoyed at night and turned up very loud. Some people have a problem with the disco elements that pepper the album, but I can't imagine it without them. The album used to scare me as a boy when my dad played it.
