Blogging from the Road Ogallala Nebraska

Hello Everyone I'm blogging from Ogallala Nebraska (watch short video) at the end of day two of my three day trip to Salt Lake City Utah to start my internship. Day two can be summarized in two words. Corn and construction. I think when the President said he had shovel ready projects to put people to work they were all in Missouri and Nebraska. We started out from Springfield Mo and have drive another 650 miles. On the way we probably went through 40 construction zones. I would have thought that the GPS on my blackberry would have told me about these and rerouted me through a less traffic filled corridor, but no.

Below is my daughter Kayla who will be attending the University of Utah, she has done some of the driving which has been a big help.

And here is the video of Ogallala from the overpass of I-80. It was getting dim out, so you may not be able to make out everything but anything that you see green is probably corn.

I can't giver a formal recommendation on the Best Western (below)that we are staying at, but it does have a really cool looking stagecoach in front of the Hotel. Unfortunately a bunch of motorcycles were blocking it so I couldn't get you a good picture, but here it is from their website.

One of the things that I can say about the hotel is that it has great Wi-Fi access which is allowing me to do this blog. It has also allowed me to Skype to my wife and two other children who are attending the National Down Syndrome Conference in Orlando. My eight year old Down Syndrome daughter was having problems getting to bed after ice cream in her hair, and jumping on the beds in the hotel for two hours, so my wife put me on Skype to be the enforcer from 2000 miles away. Very cool.

Well tomorrow I will finally be in Utah. Look forward to blogging from my brother's home.

Evan. . .