We packed up Monday morning to leave Ft. Collins with the intention of taking an off-the-usual-I-80 route home through Hastings, NE. We stopped short of Hastings because there was a gusty north wind that made driving our high-profile van a chore. Southwest Nebraska is hilly, and then very flat as you reach the high plains. As we traveled along highway 6, we could see each town ahead of us because of the big grain elevators. It’s harvest time here.

We stopped in Holdrege for the night at an extremely reasonable city camping spot ($10/night with hook-ups) to get out of the wind. Our evening stroll was through downtown and around the railroad station. We traveled on to Hastings the following morning and grabbed a shot of me in front of the house where my parents lived when I was born.

The rest of the drive home was uneventful, and I brought the cats back into the house in “taco-kitty” style with their brown bed without complaints. It works best to leave them in the van for a bit, then bring in Catnip first, followed by Primrose a bit later. Snuggled into their brown bed, neither one seemed scared about the transfer and there were no fluffed tails or slinking around behavior. Whew!