Omaha Trip
January 6-9, 2005


 

In early January 2005 we decided to take a small road trip to Omaha, Nebraska to do some out-of-state geocaching. We left immediately after work on a Thursday evening and drove to Ames, Iowa. We made it to Omaha Friday evening, geocaching the whole way there. Saturday we spent caching around the Omaha area, and then Sunday we made the 6-hour drive back home.

It was probably not the best time to go as that area had just received a generous dumping of snow, but it was all part of the adventure! While on the trip we found our milestone 200th cache.
 
Relevant links: Surf Ballroom
Ames, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa		 Council Bluffs, Iowa
Omaha, Nebraska
College World Series

 
01-06-05: Julia outside the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. This was the last venue played by three very famous musicians before their tragic deaths. We had stopped by to complete a virtual cache. It was super cold out! (GC8519)

01-06-05: Jonas standing next to the memorial to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper outside the Surf Ballroom.

01-07-05: Leave me alone. I'm not a morning person!

01-07-05: Jonas casually poses for a snowy shot while geocaching. (GCK3CF)

01-07-05: Here is Lucy Lego, a travel bug we brought to Des Moines and Omaha. She wanted to visit the tallest buildings in large cities.

01-07-05: Julia at the site of a geocache we couldn't find. The Iowa State Capitol Building is in the background.

01-07-05: Julia slowly trudges through the snow.

01-07-05: Pant, pant. It was really exhausting!

01-07-05: Julia breathing to demonstrate how cold it is. Or is she blowing a kiss?

01-07-05: Can you see the deer lying in the snow?

01-07-05: It's hard to tell, but there is a very large, old tree in the middle of the road. It was planted accidentally by a surveyor as he established the county line. To mark the line, he cut a branch from a nearby cottonwood tree. It sprouted and grew! (GCHJHQ)

01-08-05: Jonas at the overlook of the Missouri River north of Council Bluffs, Iowa. We tried to complete a virtual cache, but there was too much snow on the ground to find the plaque containing the required information. (GC593E)

01-08-05: Julia at the Missouri Overlook.

01-08-05: Julia at the Missouri Overlook parking lot.

01-08-05: Lucy Lego strikes again! Here she is pictured with the tallest buildings in Omaha, Nebraska.

01-08-05: Julia at Rosenblatt Stadium, home of the College World Series for over 50 years. The bronze statue in front is called Road to Omaha.

01-08-05: Jonas in front of Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha.

01-08-05: For our 200th overall find, we chose the webcam cache UNO Campus Cam. We were to find the webcam on campus and capture a picture of ourselves in it as proof that we visited. It's dark out in this picture and the quality is poor, but you can see the lights shining from the headlamps we are wearing! We're in the middle-left of the picture.