Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Lincoln Highway Centennial
















Continuing west we kept off the Interstate traveling for a good part of the day on a section of the old Lincoln Highway. Shortly after crossing the Mississippi and entering Nebraska we caught up with a dozen or so Model A Fords who were likely traveling to the Lincoln Highway Centennial at the Great Platte River Road Archway. Over the next 10 miles you could feel the history as we represented the progress of the late 50's and early 60's as we passed the 1930's vehicles with our trailer. I was also aware that a group of TIn Can Tourists was traveling some of this same stretch of the Lincoln Highway in route to the Centennial, but I couldn't get our itinerary line up with theirs so we were a couple of days ahead of them. You can read about their tour at Cool McCool's Garage. Later in the day we had a great conversation with nice guy with a very cool hot rod in Grand Rapids, NE while stopped for lunch at a supermarket parking lot. Our stop for the night was at Lake Maloney State Recreation Area in North Platte, "just park and camp anywhere you want". 


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