Great Road Trip of 2017.....Part Six/Day Five

**I'll be out of commission for a couple of days but should be back up and running by Friday(medical stuff).  I had this post ready in the chute so enjoy. 8-)

Part One of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Two of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE

Part Three of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
Part Four of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE

Part Five of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE

So we veered North ........

And the topography took on a decidedly different turn.

After a while we came to town........

                               

The site of "Carhenge"!

                    

I apologize for the sound quality but it was quite gusty that day.

                                 

This America's answer to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England is mathematically/geometrically the same as the famous antiquity in the United Kingdom.

                                         

The man who decided to build this used junked American built cars instead.  American Druids come here to celebrate the Solstices and Equinoxes.

                                        

And unlike the one in England, it's not cordoned off so you can't get close to it, you can wander all around and through the grounds to your heart's content.

They also had other quirky art installations made from metal.  Like this fish.

                                        

We didn't get close enough to these art pieces to figure out what they were.  Remember it was blazing hot out that Summer!

                                       

This was cool.  In their small gift and snack shop they had a wall with every state's license plate on it.

The lady manning the shop said Alliance NE was dead center in the path of the Solar Eclipse that blanketed North America that Summer.  We were also traveling westward that Summer and just a week or so ahead of it's arrival in most every place we stopped.  The site was expecting about 15,000 people camping in the fields surrounding Carhenge on the date of that Solar Eclipse.  Not liking crowds I was glad to get a t-shirt and move on NOW! lol

Oh look!  A sign for another Runza restaurant. lol

A  sign for Buffalo Bill's Ranch.  We didn't have time to stop there in North Platte, Nebraska but you can read about it HERE.

OMG!  How did we get this close to Hershey?!  Oh wait, this one isn't in PA. ;-)

We stopped for the night at a little hole-in-the-wall motor inn called the Meadowlark Motor Inn outside of Bridgeport, Nebraska.  Nothing fancy but they had a restaurant and a liquor store attached to it. lol

 

Home Sweet Home for one night.   You know you are in a part of the country where they get a lot of snow when your room has both an outside facing door(shown here)plus a backdoor in the room facing an interior corridor that feeds out to a central entrance/exit.

              

                                 

Hubs went into the liquor store(that's where you checked in)and found a great deal on a bottle of bourbon or whiskey or something of that ilk.

We also got a discount coupon for breakfast the next morning.  The clerk there also told us that if we lost our room key(??)after the store and restaurant closed up for the night there would be no one to let us back in our room.  So once we had dinner we stayed in the room.

It was by no means a 3 star motor inn(do they even give stars for motor inns?)but it was roomy by modern motel standards, had a bathroom, a bed and a tv.  What more could you ask for?  

Thus ended Day Five of the Journey Across the Country.

Sluggy