We drove the rest of the way across Nebraska today on US-20 through the Sand Hills area and the bluffs of the Northeast corner and into Wyoming. The Sand Hills area is amazing but not all that scenic. It looks like a desert, like the Sahara, that was all sand dunes and then gradually grew a very thin coat of grass over the sand. Anywhere the land is scarred like from cattle, roads, erosion, etc., you can see the very light and fine sand  underneath. The amazing thing is that the grass grew on the sand and was not suffocated by it. In the lower areas, where water runs, trees and tall grasses grow but in the higher areas the grass is brown from the drought and very wispy or just eaten down to its roots by the cattle, lots of cattle. While driving through the Sand Hills I noticed that the GPS data said that we were at over 3,000 feet of elevation and got as high as about 3,500 feet.

After passing through the Sand Hills area we arrived at the extreme Northeast corner of Nebraska and the bluffs – eroded sand hills that look like and probably are a form of sandstone. Crossing into Wyoming the topology became somewhat less interesting but there were some odds and ends of the sandstone formations.

We ran on real gas all the way across Nebraska but, unfortunately, the party is over. Wyoming is back to using ethanol in the gas. We are spending tonight and tomorrow night in a KOA in Douglas, Wyoming. We are not in a hurry to get to the rally site so just cruising and need another rest – this kind of life is tough. Tomorrow we will do some grocery shopping, visit the Pioneer Museum, and there is a stone arch around here that we will visit.