{"id":2472,"date":"2023-08-17T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T20:30:24","slug":"grand-island-to-the-platte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/08\/17\/grand-island-to-the-platte\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Island, to the Platte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A mile wide and an inch deep. Unlike the Missouri River, the Platte River is too shallow for boats to navigate. It forms a broad, flat, shallow corridor heading west through Nebraska to the Rockies. I crossed the river today and will follow it from here heading west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today was an easy ride and not as long. I followed US 34 with a good shoulder and moderate traffic. There was a cross wind from the north, but not as strong as yesterday. There were no hills. This area definitely is irrigated with corn as the primary crop. I see some agri-business such as a pet food maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunrise keeps moving slightly later as I head west. I can get breakfast in the motel, though I never know if it will be cereal+muffin or something else. So I also sometimes have some grocery items as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first four miles heading north into a slight head wind had me wonder how strong that would be today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now on US 34 and heading west past the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Better picture of one of these pumps. Propane powered and feeding a pipe that either goes along the field at the bottom or to overhead sprinklers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bradshaw was the first town I passed. My front tire was soft, I pumped it up and it lasted the rest of the ride – perhaps a slow leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to Hampton <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guessing game: watch for wind ?????? on bridge <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pet food factory <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Platte River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was in Grand Island by noon, so had a slow lunch to avoid showing up too early. Motels are close to a Walmart so I can get some grocery items. From here US 30 follows the Platte west. We have some hot days in the weather forecast but I keep moving to drier areas so that should keep mornings cooler and lower the heat index.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A mile wide and an inch deep. Unlike the Missouri River, the Platte River is too shallow for boats to navigate. It forms a broad, flat, shallow corridor heading west through Nebraska to the Rockies. I crossed the river today …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nebraska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}