Ole'

 

No, this is not an Ole and Lena joke.  An easy driving day today - we were off the road by 2:00.  With "the pad" we leave ourselves, we can make these last 3 driving days less than 300 miles.  Today, it was only 220.

You know when you were a kid and there were some foods that bring back happy memories?  Well, supper today wasn't from our childhood, but from when we lived in the Black Hills... Taco John's.  For those not familiar with it, it is fast food Mexican of sorts.  The thing I like the most: Potato Ole's.  They are like a flat tater-tot with some kind of seasoning on it (it may be crack), and a creamy nacho cheese dip...

 It just so happens that there is a Taco John's close by our planned stop for today.  No, we didn't stop here just for the TJ stop, but you might as well take advantage of it when it presents itself.  TJ's is based out of Cheyenne, WY, and is in 22 states, primarily in the upper Midwest and Mountain region.  I had to send that photo above to Steph - she loves their Potato Ole's... she and I stopped at a Taco John's on our way to the Winnebago factory last December.

Back to the drive: with only 220 miles to make, we didn't head out until 9:30.  There had been a pounding rain/thunderstorm around 1:00am last night, the the local weather showed a chance of more of the same along our route.

The ground was saturated when I unplugged electric this morning, but we were in the sunshine.  That didn't last long...

Fortunately, all we got was wet.  That was a dark sky ahead of us in that photo above.  We drove into some rain, but nothing ugly.  It was nice to have some overcast for most of the drive today, and it wasn't so blistering hot.  (mid-80s when we got in this afternoon).

A Nebraska stop tonight, and another one tomorrow night, then into Hart Ranch on Friday (that's the plan).