Taking the back roads in Nebraska and South Dakota
Taking the back roads in Nebraska and South Dakota
We left Utah on Wednesday morning. We had planned on leaving Tuesday, so we could travel a bit slower but there was bad snow storms all across Wyoming. Right where we needed to go. So the smart thing was to hang out for a day, and wait out the weather. Good thing to, when we did go across Wyoming on Wednesday there was quite a bit of snow piled on the sides of the highway in places. We made it to Cheyenne that first day, then traveled into Nebraska on Thursday. We went through the upper left corner of Nebraska a few years ago, so this was all new territory for us.
I have to say, I loved the wide open spaces, the nothingness for miles on end, and the quirky little towns. Traveling with the house is harder, because we can’t stop or turn around on a dime. So when I see a photo op, hopefully there is a way to stop and check it out. Such was the case with this old building.
It looked like a combination of an old church, and maybe a town hall type of place.
The inside was pretty rough, to say the least. I can’t believe they just left the piano.
For some reason this window in the wall was very interesting to me.
As we were cruising along, a friend of mine on facebook said we should go see carhenge. I remembered that I did want to see that, and when I asked the google map lady, we realized a short detour would take us there. What a fun side trip it was. The old cars were fantastic.
I thought this creation was pretty imaginative.
We made it through Nebraska and into South Dakota on Thursday. That night we stayed in Winner, SD. We traveled on the back roads the whole way through Nebraska and South Dakota, all the way to Sioux Falls. We like taking the road less traveled and the trip was more interesting for it. America is a very interesting, and diverse place.
More photos and stories on our trip in the coming days.
Oh, that one particular one looks like a modern day STONEHENGE! The interior of that old building with the aqua walls is absolutely beautiful, especially for those of us who love ruins of any kind. They tell the story.
GORGEOUS PHOTOS!
I love old buildings, and this one was pretty fun to find. The cars are meant to look like stonehenge, pretty cool huh?
the house touched my heart… I would love to give it a new life… even when that would be probably eggs-tremely over my budget :o)
I don’t know how much life was left in that place, it would cost the earth to fix it.
The house is amazing!!! And the window is very interesting too…as were the cars. It is simply amazing what can be found on the back roads of our country. I have trouble understanding why people have a need to go overseas when there is so very much to see right here!!
There is a lot to see here, and we love finding it.
Mary, I hope you sometimes sit back and give yourself a pat on the back – your photography skills have continued to grow over the years and your eye for interesting pictures has really developed into the ability to see pictures where many people would miss them. Well done and thank you for sharing!
Thank you, that is very kind. I do look back at older photos and I can see how I’ve progressed. I am always trying to get that different shot.
Hello, traveling the back roads is fun! I love the carhenge photos. Wonderful series of photos. Happy Monday, enjoy your new week!
Your old building may have been the school, church, and gathering place. Looks like a remote enough place for that kind of multi-use.
No matter how many places you do, you never run out of interesting things to see, huh?
It was pretty remote, so that’s what we thought too. And no, we never run out of interesting things to see. That’s the funnest part of this whole thing.
Fabulous shots! I love that window in the blue wall and the Stonehenge of old cars.
Very cool old building! We (2 of my sisters and I) are driving to So Dak this summer. Not sure we’ll have time – but I’ll have to look and see if we’ll be anywhere near Carhenge on the way there or back.
Those drives are so boring, but we love it when we see neat old buildings like the one you found.
Backroads and small towns are the best – everything else I can see in magazines and on TV! Touristy spots are not for me, I like the *real* America. That is such a cool building, especially the picture of the outside. But how weird that they left the piano behind! Places like that are so fascinating – endless stories can be imagined.