Tuesday, May 27, 2008

May 27

After a wild and exciting three days of chasing, today was an easy day of driving from Hutchinson, KS to North Platte, NE. In between, we visited the world's largest ball of sisal twine (http://skyways.lib.ks.us/towns/Cawker/twine.html) in Cawker City, KS and the geographic center of the contiguous U.S. near Lebanon, KS. We ate dinner at the scrumptious regional chain known as Valentino's. Sorry you weren't here Renny!


The driving weather could be summed up in one word...miserable. Skies were cloudy along with a steady drizzle and temperatures in the lower 50s. Although it wasn't quite cold enough, it almost looked like snow flakes were flying in Nebraska! For all of you back home in the South, tonight's forecast for North Platte calls for cloudy skies, drizzle, fog, and a morning low near 43. Haven't felt that in a couple of months! Temperatures look to rebound over the next couple of days with mid 80s forecast by Thursday.

The plan for tomorrow is to take care of "teaching business" and possibly drive over to Scottsbluff and Chimney Rock. Brings back memories of the Oregon Trail!

Thursday is starting to look promising again very near this area or just off to the north and east. More about that tomorrow...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Justyn, we are planning on leaving here now and staying in Oneil tonight. Good idea? -Ryan

Denae said...

I once wrote a travel article about storm chasing in the mid-west and did research on the ball o' twine. Fun to see a picture of it on your blog.