June 30th the sandhills of Nebraska!

Today stared off being a wonderful morning with cool temps and very well rested for once! So we packed up, ate a pop tart and set out on our days adventure. To start things off we had some good climbs out of the Missouri River Valley but it was a georgeous view! I got to see my first mule deer and I thought it was very odd how they hopped around instead of run like normal deer, but whatever gets them to their desitnation is fine by me. They probably look at us and think we are crazy too! We got to a point where we needed to take a snack break. Once we were through eating we saw two young lads coming towards us on bicycles and they had been in our camp site the night before. So we decided to wait for them and hear their story! We find out they had just graduated from high school and were riding from Illinois to Boulder, Co to see a friend. They had some great stories. 1) A raccoon ran off with one of their hats, but someone was kind enough to give him a new one 2) they ran into many dogs some kind but those that were mean they found out if you bark louder then them they are very likely to stop bothering you! 3) they ran into an old man who called himself "Chief" and they think he might have been one of the many mirages they saw in Iowa!! They were absolutely wonderful to ride with. We ended up riding with them for 4 miles until we both had to split off and go our own routes! We then hit the Nebraska border took our normal picure and were ready to see what NE had to offer us. We stopped off in the town of Butte where we were warned that the water was not good so don't get it:0 We ended up eating at a little cafe with a crazy owner who told us she wanted to open a whole chain of shitty resutrants in Nebraska! We stopped to take a little break about 1 hour after lunch and it was right next to a cemetary. There were some workers out there doing the duties they had to take care of after a funeral. Many of you know I am fascinated by many weird things. So we stayed there and watched what goes on after the people have left the funeral. It was acuatlly very interesting and we talked with the workers! They said it was a good job to have because people were dying to get in there so they did not have to worry about losing their jobs during this time of economic distress! A lot has been learned so far on this trip! We then rode and rode and rode, we saw a little sheep with it's head stuck in a cattle fence and I was worried for it. So Chance being the ever so wonderful hero he is jumped the fence and saved the sheep! He is now a celebrity in the sheep community! The destination we were hoping to stop at was a little town called Mills. It would have been about a 60 mile ride which would be good through the very rolling sandhills of Nebraska! We then come to Mills and find out there is nothing there but some houses, a church and 4 people. The man that lived next to the church told us we could camp there and use the restrooms in the church. That would have been ok if we had packed some extra food and were not in desperate need of a shower. So we took a short nap, ate a snack and rode 24 more miles to Spring View. It was a good decision because they had some place eat and a nice park with great showers.