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Weird and Fun Places to Visit in Nebraska

Nebraska offers many great things to visitors, from great food and exhibits in Omaha and Lincoln, to traveling the trails along Scotts Bluff . Whatever you want to do, you are likely to find it on your Nebraska Vacation.

If you keep an eye out, you will also spot some very different sights, unique things that you never new existed throughout various Nebraska tourism regions. Of course, when you see these things, you will likely be compelled to stop and find out what all the fuss is.

Carhenge - Nebraska tourism

One of the unique and very interesting things you will find on your trek through Nebraska is Carhenge. It is a celebration of the surreal!

As the name suggests, this is a replica of one Stonehenge, one of the most famous sites in the world. The only irony is that instead of monolithic slabs of stone, this structure is made completely from the shells of old automobiles.

Carhenge is not the only sculpture in the park, of course. The Spawning Salmon, created by Geoff Sandhurst shows a giant fish rising from the earth. Dino, is a sculpture of a historic dinosaur that looks amazeingly like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Fourd Seasons is a sculpture that is very unqiue to the state – it shows the four stages of the wheat that is harvested in the area. The Carnestoga is a station wagon that is scuplted to resemble a Conestoga wagon from times past – it even has wagon wheels and “horses” hitched to the front!

Carhenge is open all year, and the best visiting hours are during the day. Admission to the park is totally free, but they willingly accept donations. These donations are used for the maintenance and upkeep of the area.

So enjoy your vacation through Nebraska - you will be happy that you found it!

I know the question that might be on your mind is, “Why in the world would you do this?”

It’s actually pretty simple. After we bought our RV and started to travel we kept getting calls from our family and friends asking where we were and where were we are going next.  The person who called the most was my Dad.  He had always wanted to get a RV and travel the country.  He was really happy when we got ours and you could tell he wanted to go along.

His health wasn’t that good so we really had to plan out when he would be able to join us.

We planned a trip for this summer but in the mean time I hooked up a GPS so he could see where we were on Google maps.  After a couple trips I found out a way to hook up a camera so he could actually see out the front window as we were driving  down the road.  That was going to be a surprise for him this spring.

When word got out, everyone we knew wanted to see the mountains on a trip we took out to Colorado.  It was really tough to keep my Dad from finding out and ruining the surprise but we pulled it off!

The sad part is that my Dad passed away the day before Christmas Eve this past December and he never got to see the camera or us driving down the road.

It really got me thinking about how many other people want to see the country but don’t have the time, money, or health.  Life gets busy and no matter what they “plan” to do in the future it never ends up happening.

My dad liked to meet new people and loved to travel but worked so much he never really got a chance to do it.

We consider ourselves pretty lucky because what we do for a living makes all of this possible.

We wanted to share this with as many people as we could. We opened the site up for everyone that wishes they could travel more or maybe have seen some of the places we will be going. If you have any tips on what to see or know any intresting people that we should meet and maybe interview please let us know.

It does not matter if they are famous or just your average Joe/Jane.  If they have a story to tell we would love to talk to them.

We will do our best to share it with everyone here.

What else can you do to help?

That’s really simple too!
Share the site with anyone you think would be intrested.  The more people we have on a “Road Trip” more fun it will be..

Steve