Day 8 – Omaha NE and Council Bluffs IA

It was a pleasant day in Gretna NE. We had our coffee on the little patio outside the RV and then took off at 9:30 for Council Bluffs IA and the Union Pacific Railroad Museum. It is housed in a beautiful old Carnegie Library. There were lots of really interesting exhibits, and we spent an hour and a half there.

Then we drove back to Omaha (just a few miles) to the Durham Museum. This museum is housed in an old, beautiful Union Pacific Station. The lobby is beautiful. There were lots of train exhibits including several old passenger cars. There were also many others including an interesting Byron Reed collection of coins. It is a huge museum and was well worth the time spent there. I bought an interesting book by Bob Greene called “Once Upon a Town” about the city of North Platte NE during WW II and its North Platte Canteen that met every troop train that came through during the war years. We will be stopping there, so I thought it would be neat to read about it.

We drove a couple of blocks into historic downtown Omaha in search of lunch. Several of the restaurants that we had considered were closed due to a power outage the day before. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant called Stokes. I wasn’t expecting too much when I ordered the mushroom enchilada. It was amazing with mushrooms and Monterey jack cheese, covered in a ancho chile sauce with cinnamon. It was spicy yet sweet. Bill got two fish tacos, but I let him have one of my enchiladas which he thought was really tasty.

We got back to the RV at 3:30 and hung out. We worked on our travel day plans for tomorrow. I worked on some photos. And we watched some TV.

Dinner was light – fresh corn, the rest of the melon salad, and strawberries with ice cream. Not a bad life.

I am posting photos as often as I can/need to, and the link is on the right.