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just left
downtown denver from the indigo um
is it called hotel indigo yeah hotel
indigo and
yeah we're about um 30 minutes out from
there so it's kind of getting a little
sparse now it doesn't look city-like
anymore
but i enjoyed my stay there it was great
we love downtown denver
although we're only just there for one
night you know we went to the grand
central station
oh union station you probably would have
understood anyway but yeah grand central
station is i'm in l.a
and in new york and in new york yeah um
but we were gonna eat lunch there i mean
dinner there but
a lot of the places that i wanted to go
to were closed so luckily across the
street there was a ramen place and we
love ramen so
yeah we had ramen at this place called
jinya which is kind of a chain
restaurant
around um in the u.s and um this is
pretty good
i mean it's not like authentic authentic
japanese around it but it
flavored yeah the flavorings there so we
enjoyed denver for just one night
and now we are heading to
nebraska specifically beatrice nebraska
so
i bet um i guess like 80 of you don't
know where that is maybe even higher 90
don't know where beatrice nebraska we
were very very young
i don't really remember much because i
was in kindergarten we
lived in was it blue springs nebraska no
oh omaha
live in omaha nebraska so omaha is a big
city in nebraska and it's about
an hour from lincoln and then beatrice
is
another what happened from
where we used to live and that is where
our relatives live
yeah so our relatives live and this is
our dad's side
in lincoln and um it was it's not
beatrice it's actually
our grandma used to live in blue springs
nebraska which is that's why i'll save
this spring
i'm wondering why i was like where did
this springs come from yeah so blue
springs is about
5-10 minutes from beatrice but beatrice
is a city so
like a little actually nice city it's a
town it's a little town
so they have hotels there and thank
goodness they had a pet friendly hotel
so we're staying at the holiday inn
express there and then
our uncle lives on a farm and he takes
care of the cows there
so that's about a 30 minute drive from
beatrice
and the the farm has been passed down
for generations in the family
so it's like the late 1800s yeah so it's
been there for a long long time
and it just brings back a lot of i don't
remember much but the only reason why i
somewhat remember is because
we actually used to have a video camera
back in the 80s which is surprising so
there's a lot of footage on the farm
and us feeding the cows and weird kids
so it's really
um that's where all my memories really
come from it's the videotapes
crystal was a lot a little bit older so
i think she actually really remember
remembers from emory more than from the
tapes so because we're about
five years um an age difference so at
the time i think i was about
uh i was in kindergarten it was in
between
uh 10 to 13 years old that's when i was
in nebraska so candy was
five or six yeah yeah she was very young
um we were only there for what three
years three years we weren't there very
long
yeah um but yeah we have it's very
nostalgic every time i go back there we
don't go back there often
um our grandma passed away
several years ago it's been a while it's
gotta be like seven years now
um so yeah she passed away
and that was the last time we were in
nebraska
our cousin gwen she lives in lincoln and
she also helps out in the farm
in wymore she gives us updates on what's
going on and she's kind of like
the liaison between us and our uncle
looking forward to seeing him and also
our cousins too because we haven't seen
i haven't seen any of them for a long
time um but i'm also looking forward to
visiting the farm it's very nostalgic to
go back there and
kind of retrace the footsteps of where
you know we played around in the hay or
fed the cows
or you know visited the um old
house because i believe the old
farmhouse is still there
they don't live in it anymore um because
our one of our cousins built our uncle
a new home and so they just leave the
house up there and it's you know it
looks like it's made in the 1800s
because
it probably was so i did a little
research of what there's to do
in beatrice because although i've been
there many times and
you lived around the area you know when
i was younger i never
really stayed in beatrice or did
anything in beatrice
i remember like our grandma taking us
shopping one time in beatrice somewhere
um but that was about it that's all i've
ever done in beatrice
so there is a little town there they
have several restaurants
and they also have a homestead national
monument of america site there
so i thought it'd be great to check that
out just to learn a little bit about
that history i didn't
yeah i just looked up briefly about the
history so that was where
um the name is homestead act i was
looking up about the homestead act and
that was basically a time
in america where they were offering free
land to people
and that was to help promote people to
come and start farming
and basically start growing the area and
the land
to make it more prosperous they actually
have a computer there where you can look
up your family's genealogy
and if they did actually take part in
that so
i thought that was really interesting i
actually downloaded our family tree
just to see if we put in any names if
anything comes up yeah i
i think we have a high chance where we
are like our family is part of that
because
our families so they're actually from
bohemia is what they called it back then
it's a mix of czechos
or czech republic which they called
czechia now
um slovakia and um
hungary so they used to call it bohemia
um so that was our
grandma's heritage and then our
grandfather was german
anyway so they moved to the states
and ended up in nebraska somehow we
don't know how they ended up in nebraska
so maybe they did take part of this
homestead act you know you never know i
don't know so that is our drive today
yeah and it's about seven hours so yeah
it's about a seven hour drive about 500
miles not bad
that's from denver of course
all right just switch with candy and we
are in nebraska now
like we've gotta be in nebraska we
didn't see like a nebraska sign like
welcome to nebraska
i guess they don't make a big deal about
it well we are like on the bottom corner
of nebraska maybe they don't put one
there in the entrance
i don't know i don't know but we didn't
know we were in nebraska but i felt like
we were never happy
i saw a nebraska's plate well and i
thought corn cornfields to the right i'm
like we've got to be a nervous guy
but yeah so we are 304 miles away now
and uh got about four hours left in the
drive we just stopped by
mcdonald's um that was exit
126 on i-80 east i felt like from denver
up into this point
there was quite a bit of stops yeah like
i wasn't ever really well there was like
one stretch where i'm like oh
it hasn't been a gas station but yeah
there was
quite a bit of gas stations and there
was a couple rest stops one of them was
closed
but we didn't feel like oh my god i
really need to go where's the next
segment we always found an exit
yeah so not a problem around here on
i-76
and i 80. so we stocked up and ended up
getting mcdonald's
yeah it's always there you know oh my
god i'm getting my um
i guess i'm going to get my happy meal
again yeah
this is the only thing that i don't like
about road trips is the limited
options for food like because we're not
big fans of fast food
so um yeah it kind of
i don't really like eating fast food
burgers i never do it's like we're
forced to eat faster
i mean it's fine every once in a while
of course i have a craving for like a
big mac every once in a while you know
but
it's not very often yeah and like to
have it every day
it like takes a toll on you and your
body i wish they had
more healthy options on road trips yeah
because in japan when you go on road
trips there's a ton of healthy options
you can get rice balls
you can get really like simple
sandwiches on the go
you can get like these bento boxes with
rice and sand like they just have so
many healthy options for on the road and
we just don't have that here and that's
what i
don't like about road trips here i mean
of course you can have a big cooler with
you
and keep on taking it with you with like
healthier options but
we did that in the beginning and of
course it allows for like two days
that's it yeah
this is a nice area
what is this nebraska
city for kearney cut off massive
freighting of supplies by ox and mule
trains was a direct result of the
establishment of fort kearney and other
western military posts
this is actually a little sight the
drive has been
pretty boring but i like it that way i
like straight shot roads like this
and i actually like seeing corn
yeah it hasn't been a bad drive no it
hasn't been bad at all it's been plenty
of rest areas
yeah not rest areas but there's a
service station
full services not it doesn't seem as
secluded as
we're driving through like sedona to
colorado
that just seemed like we were really
nowhere there was never any reception
but this drive there's been reception
either i don't have
doesn't have it but one of us always has
it so i don't feel so away from
everything yeah i am so surprised that
this entire ride
i've had about two to four bars like
full full bars and like in the nebraska
area too i'm like what i totally thought
i would have
little to no reception around here she
has more than me i've been having 3g
the whole time um but i did just get lte
now
so yeah i have i'm with verizon and
she's with
teamwork yeah i'm with t-mobile yeah but
we seem to have like opposite reception
a lot of times that works out for us so
if one of us doesn't have reception the
other always has
yeah i just got some coffee at pilot
that was at
exit uh 257 i believe
um and as candy said there's lots of
exits on the way there's lots of
rest areas they do a great job of doing
that on
i-80 because it's way better than
california
yeah where they give you no exits yeah
we're almost at the address only three
minutes away
arriving before 6 pm which pretty good
timing
and the drive wasn't bad at all i think
it went by pretty fast yeah i did
three and crystal did four and a half so
just a joke hours of driving
yeah turn right onto business avenue
then turn left
okay here we are right next to a ford
lincoln dealership
interesting the destination is on your
right
holiday express and suites beatrice
it looks pretty new or at least the
building is still very pristine
yeah i must have done like a renovation
of fun or new paintings
okay we are here
no no did you hear it
i was like did you have faith
please let me walk just let me park
i think we're gonna forget about you is
that why you bark you should just get
super duper excited you know
she has been in the car oh then she you
know doesn't make a peep while we're
driving really
every once in a while she is very quiet
all right we made it to our hotel in
beatrice nebraska yep
another day another hotel i just want to
say when we checked in the guy that
checked us in his voice is so
pleasant yeah chandler chandler yeah
awesome
by the way he's great too probably the
best service like
customer service as far as like the
experience and his whole aura
it's like very pleasant very helpful
information
he gave us restaurant recommendations in
the area
which we really needed because we didn't
really research that prior to coming
here
the room is a little bit dated but you
know we kind of
expected that in the beatrice area yeah
and
uh but it looks like some of the
furniture might have been updated a
little bit so we just checked in
we're actually right next to the welcome
to beatrice science i know we need to
take a picture like that later yeah
um but yeah we're heading to dinner now
so downtown beatrice which we're going
to that's
about a five-minute drive i think i
remember stopping by
this like shopping plaza mall with my
grandma one time
here yeah and and not i don't think i
used to be at a it's hard where a store
is to be like something
that looks kind of familiar to you oh no
maybe it was this the mall
yeah i think it was like the mall like
it was one of these
like shopping mall areas or what they
call it
the shopping plaza what is it like a
strip mall strip mall
yeah strip mall areas so when i was
i don't know 10 years old or something
my grandma took me to one of these
oh wow yeah for shopping oh gosh it's
219 here
mcdonald's in a kfc yeah subway oh i
could do kfc
okay i like that option i haven't been
to kfc in a while
yeah me neither i mean there's not much
around like there used to be you know
yeah there's a dairy queen
he wanted a blizzard they love dairy
queen in nebraska i remember that my dad
loves dairy queen i know he was so
excited
one time like he we hadn't been back to
the states in a while and he was like i
really want dairy queen am i really
that's what you want you want dairy
queen he loves dairy queen
this place looks very like untouched
downtown
everything looks closed like what
everything always looked closed back
then anyway
looks like it's after that light
it's a cute little you know it's just i
like this little downtown
i mean look they have such cute
buildings here
so there it is it is open
and we found parking and easy parking i
love
this i mean look at that building that
is so
cool yeah it's like um they've never
touched the building this is just the
way it was before
candy taken a few photos we just love
these uh
old buildings they're very charming and
have some character to it you know
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