September 7, 2020

Sandhills

Red Willow Recreation Area Campground McCook, Nebraska

My morning walk in corn country.

Today we drove through the sandhills of Nebraska.  They are lumpy,

bumpy,

and humpy.

The undulating ride made me feel tired!

We camped at Red Willow State Recreation Area.  We have a wonderful site overlooking the water.  Now that most people are going back to work and home, we expect that we might have an easier time finding camping spots.

We spent some time this afternoon exploring the park.

This is from the bison viewing area.  The bison are in a fence and being fed, not roaming wild.

We saw the dam.

And stopped at overlooks.

We took an easy hike this evening.

The smooth sumac is turning red. Indigenous people used the leaves for salad and used the berries to make a lemonade like drink. It is an invasive plant and deer like it.

This is a tiger or common desert centipede. This guy was four inches long and looked like it could hurt you. They eat rodents and frogs. They pinch their prey with their mandibles and inject poison…glad we didn’t step on this one!

Not sure what kind of snake this is…maybe a North American Racer…but he’s pretty!

We are grateful to have electric service tonight.  It was 84 degrees today but tonight it is supposed to be 40 and rainy.  At least here, there is no snow in the forecast! We plan to continue moving south and get further south to warmer temperatures.

We wanted to have a campfire but it is too windy and very dry here, so we skipped the fire but still enjoyed the hot chocolate with amaretto!