Nebraska, and A Familiar Crossing

Before I started this walk across the United States from East Coast to West Coast, I did a similar walk from Northwest Washington to Miami. As I walk now from Delaware to California, it is inevitable that my current path will cross the path of that previous trip, and it turns out that the crossing is not in someplace hard to pin down, like five miles south of a small town in Nebraska, but rather at a significant landmark. Today, I crossed the 3,000-foot Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge over the Missouri River, crossing from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Omaha, Nebraska, and I also crossed this bridge on my previous trip, heading the opposite direction.

The halfway point of my trip will be in Nebraska, as it was in my previous walk, but for this trip it is still 330 miles ahead, more than halfway across the state. Total distance across the state is 523 miles, of which I have already covered 3, so only 520 to go.

After Nebraska, I will pass through only 4 more states, although the total distance across those four states is over 2,200 miles (this path is really not straight.) Every state from here forward, including Nebraska, will take a few months to cross.

We will talk more about Nebraska, but for now let's remember that Nebraska is the home of Runza, a fast-food place that serves Runza sandwiches and, with a couple of exceptions, only exists in Nebraska.

A Runza

That looks pretty good. I want one.