warning to everybody had a little trimming accident went too far down on
one side try to compensate got rid of the beard we're gonna sport the goatee
for a little bit I think my last place I was at was the reservoir and now I'm in
Hershey Nebraska and I found another free gem of a campground although last
night we had thunder and lightning severe thunderstorm warnings no
tornadoes but we had lots of thunder and lightning here and it rained and now
it's just cloudy and overcast but this was my view and this is a free little
like hidden gem campsite I'll show you there's my RB Wildlife Area regulations
Cammie can't be limited to three days in a six
day period so it's just a little loop right off
Lincoln Highway and by Lincoln Highway I mean it was a dirt gravel road it's a
bad road out here that but you know I got some nice private little camping
here and I liked it some of my new viewers and subscribers have been asking
why I don't talk about the locations that I'm staying at on the Lincoln
Highway and I have covered this in the past about people abusing it both
abusing the lands but also I have people taking the GPS coordinates that I
provided for free and selling them on their website with advertising all of my
work selling my work I wanted to share those so that other people could enjoy
them but I certainly there's there's boundaries so at the end of Lincoln
Highway I will address a way that you can get all of the coordinates to every
single campground and every single stop that I stopped at on this three-month
Lincoln Highway journey there will be something available stay tuned the end
once we get to the East Coast right now we're all packed up we're gonna get back
on the Lincoln Highway and travel a little bit
just wanted you guys to see my dedication to Lincoln Highway twists and
turns and dirt and graded roads even though it could be out on highway 80 out
there we're sticking to it here nope that's too fast gotta go ten I know you
can't see the ruts and grades in the road it's bad it's bad it almost looks
like it used to be concrete at one time
just share it with you lovely road closed to through traffic it's taken me
an hour to get nine miles and now I got to turn back around
hey I get it guys I chose this this is my decision to do Lincoln Highway but uh
boy that was worthless just spent an hour to go nine miles on a dead end just
to turn all the way back around and waste another hour to get back on the
actual highway that isn't closed so yeah hey I get it though you got to
go off the beaten path and you got to rough it out some time just to see the
quirky stuff and the really good campgrounds I understand that was just a
pain oh shut up nice wagon here I'm here at well fort Cody
whatever that means I think this is a recreation though they got a big Buffalo
Bill I guess muffler man you'd call it yeah and some other random stuff Trading
Post Lu houer and mand towers yeah okay I'll bite I
still need a Nebraska magnet you can get coyote tails and hats
whoa one of those would look great on the front of Yoda though think you think
Wolverine did get some magnets it's starting to rain again let me get inside
them I'll show you what I got so for my first ever Nebraska magnet I
got this one it's again wood a little bit of three-dimensional and look the
windmill turns not great I like that one and since they did sell magnets I did
get a fort Cody Buffalo magnet with the fuzz I mean that's pretty unique I don't
have anything like that right so that's pretty cool we're pretty much filled up
on the side though so we'll be putting that guy up there and we'll put mr.
Buffalo up there for now yeah that a good spot well what's all this
fat extra gathering all that can you go to that med place we're gonna go we're
gonna travel okay thank you it's kind of comical because all the driving I did on
the dirt roads of the original Lincoln Highway there was nothing I had to come
all the way back out to where the exit really liked Fort Cody is right off of
Highway 80 right off the exit so it literally did me nothing will travel a
little farther until there's a better route of the old Lincoln Highway well
we'll stick to pavement for a little bit here now first of all there in mind
we're in Nebraska there's not a whole lot out here so we'll take what we can
get we're here at the sod house museum yeah and we are looking at the largest
plow in the world no idea how how big this thing is this is dedicated to the
sod house settlers what a breed they were those sod house settlers color
creek possession did not matter everyone was poor but none a popper can it be
they were richer for having little can it be they were wiser for knowing less
John Neihardt so outside here he's got some more sculptures that I find more
interesting this is just scrap barbed wire it's pretty cool actually
Buffalo made of barbed wire and here's another one Native American on a horse
it looks like
pretty neat detail well that barbed wire and the gentleman who owes the museum
and the property here built this sod house 33 years ago so we'll take a look
first I got it mentioned the smell it smells a
little like cow pies you know I mean it's cool though it's and and it looks
just like those square things of grass that they would put at like a ball park
you know except the grass is dead and the sods there Oh weird wow it's like
being inside front Fred Flintstone's house almost cozy actually it looks
really thick I'll bet it's insulated really well but I smell something else
all right I've driven over sixty miles today
it's kind of my cutoff so let's go find a campground for today I'm two things I
just stopped at this rest area here in central Nebraska and I finally got a
Nebraska State Highway map finally so that means that in the side pocket here
in my door I'm only missing three Maps Alaska Hawaii and West Virginia are the
only state highway Maps that I don't have
how do I say this on the way back like I often do at rest areas just like the
truckers I kind of do a walk-around of the RV no for some reason rest areas are
that what I like to do that the most and this time I found the rear strap of my
TWU 200 on the inside closest to the RV was off it was connected to the bike was
not connected to the frame down there I'm guessing that that probably happened
on the really rough road going 10 miles an hour on that terrible terrible road
the scary part about it is had this been scooter life where I only had one on the
handlebar here one on the handlebar here if the inside one goes this just pulls
it off the RV and it would have drugged the scooter the TW I have handlebars and
the back and one of the back inside one came off I'd rather it be an outside one
that way it pulls the bike to the RV you know but now I know if we're going over
anything bumpy monitor it on the camera live on here if possible I don't have
any service so I can't do that right now but you know what I mean or check it
often enough also I like to check the brittleness of the seams and everything
I will probably replacing those straps every four to five months anyway just
just to make sure it's good quality maybe a little uncomfortable to see that
strap just hanging off on the inside definitely gonna have to be a lot more
mindful and keep an eye on it on the bumpy roads for now on thankfully it is
a redundancy system so that if one gives there is still always going to be
another one on that side there will be still be three working ones if one fails
basically but that puts more tension on the other three with them so that's
that's all I'm saying I'm glad I caught it I'm glad nothing
bad happened back on the road we go it's funny how
you could go from a dirt graded road Canyon and go ten miles an hour to this
this is that same exact Road if it were connected and going all the way through
this is the same Lincoln highway road out of Gothenburg here and this has been
freshly paved very nice so it's it missing now we'll head up this
campground up here I have served my enough service I have my maps working
because I logged into Wi-Fi at Pizza back there punched in the coordinates
for the free campsites and now it doesn't matter because GPS is
going to get me there I don't need service so one way around
the no service thing or you could just get Verizon
it's just Wyoming and Nebraska that have like almost no AT&T
okay so we we do need to get back onto a dirt road here to get to the campground
a mile away now we're in Willow island Nebraska it probably doesn't even look
bad to you guys it just looks like ground it's just stupid grated
by anybody Oh
it's gonna be worth it Jax it's gonna be worth it that better I think it was
better at 10 miles an hour actually hey easy
okay now we're gonna cross over i-80 for some reason it's a one lane bridge
oh it's the same exact type of campground that I was at last night
wildlife area regulations can't be limited to three days pack it in pack it
out no alcohol Willow Island Wildlife Management Area Nebraska
so same Department I don't know if you'd call that the same as a BLM and in
another state or or what but just see how that it just kind of cuts through
there since there's nobody behind me I'm gonna go walk this and check it out
first I'll be back
it is beautiful back there don't bring a class-c back there there's nowhere I
turn around the only way I could enjoy that is to either back in all the way
and turn or back out when I want to leave so it's better for like tent
camping I mean this one's not as pretty I'm not camping underneath trees but it
is gonna be lakefront so don't work I don't know it's it's weird and it's
quiet for me when I don't have service and there's not a whole lot going on so
I tried really hard today to see some new stuff
the highlights of this video for me was the campground I was at last night and
this one at the lake where nobody's at that's what I like the most about
Nebraska camping so I think Nebraska is well known as like a flyover state or a
drive through state because there's just not a whole lot in Nebraska as far as
manmade type stuff but when it comes to like natural beauty and campgrounds
especially this is a boon dockers paradise okay just going 30 to 50 60
miles a day I'm probably passing stuff like this every five miles
there's probably they're just all over the place now this one is really close
to i-80 you saw we just drove over that little dirt overpass actually was
concrete but that's highway 80 so freeway noise is gonna be a factor
there's a train tracks nearby but I'm out here alone and it's just so quiet
otherwise besides the highway so anyway I kind of apologize if I've been
negative today it's just been one of those weird days for me it's it's been
strange I think it'll do my soul good to get back to civilization here soon and
start seeing more people in Nebraska okay so there's some big cities coming
up in Nebraska like Lincoln and Omaha and right now just enjoying enjoying
this anyways guys have a great night Jackson I'll see you back on the Lincoln
Highway here in a couple days buh-bye