The Grass is Blue

There were so many
GOR. GEOUS. SITES.
seen on my roadtrip home.

One of the most spectacular things I saw was on
my first night of driving.
Traveling to Nebraska I came upon a huge storm!
I thought I was driving into a tornado because the sky was so green and the clouds were so enormous! These were all taken out my window (or windshield)!
There was hail, torrential rain, wind -- I was scared!
But the beautiful scenery certainly helped.

Just thinking about some clouds...


The Storm in the distance...

The Storm coming closer...

Hello Little Gray Storm Clouds... Where is your friend Winnie?


This one is seriously straight out of the Creation.
It doesn't even look real! But it was SCARY!


Notice the massive traffic. I was a little worried that no one was coming out of the storm and no one else was going in! Like Willie Wonka's chocolate factory. So I called my friend Annie to get a check of tornadoes but there was just a severe thunder storm warning. I was a little worried I was going to be spending the night in a ditch hoping it would pass. But I made it to Ogallala and had a lovely evening at either Super 8 or Motel 6. I think Super 8 because there wasn't a light on for me.
Whatever happened to Tom Bodette anyway?

Amazing.


Annie assured me I was soon coming upon a town -- Chapel, Nebraska -- where I could potentially stay in order to avoid more storm. I pulled off there and saw the sign --
"Chapel, Population 979."
Awesome.
Although there was a symbol denoting available lodging on the exit sign to Chapel on the freeway, I was unwilling to stay at the Empire Motel.
I should've felt welcome there -- there was a large group of people (large for a city of 979) sitting outside the motel smoking and chatting it up.
But there were no lights.
And I was pretty sure that everyone in town probably had keys to every room in that motel.
No amount of my shoving a chair under the door handle was going to protect me in that town.
So on to Ogallala I went and I made it!

(Clouds and a little sunset from earlier in the day shot out my window behind me!)
(PS - don't try driving and taking pictures at home. Or when you're not at home but you're in your car and want to remember everything you're seeing. Danger Will Rogers.)

Traveling across country (storms and all) - I mean who doesn't love some weather- and being 9 hours closer to home, seriously made me
So Happy!!!