Travel Planning
Travel Planning Experiences, Ideas and Resources
Warning: This is a test! For the next 60 seconds (or more), you will be subjected to our first official attempt at blogging. Thanks, Jereomy, for your patience with our questions and your help with this work in progress.... RR, U2, & Hammy.
Every year, RR and I go on-line and request a new Nebraska Travel Guide (It's free.) from the Nebraska Travel and Tourism Division. Today, the 2008 packet showed up in our mailbox and marked the un-official start of a new riding season. I love thumbing through the guidebook and discovering places and events that I didn't know existed in our state, some of them
even in my own back yard. Each packet includes a clean, neatly folded state map just waiting to be covered in various highlighter colors. I'll choose one color for the Grand Tour, one color for the Scavenger Hunt, another color for places Hammy would
like to see, and another color for whatever places or travel routes
grab our fancy. This year's map may even include a new color for
Nebraska's winery tours -- a fast-growing tourism trend across the
nation. Oh, the places we will go!
One of the most useful things about the Nebraska Travel Guide is the contact info. Places, parks, campgrounds, and events are listed with opening/closing dates, fees, phone numbers, and web sites -- all in one neatly packaged resource. Their web site even offers a free weekly e-newsletter, Destination Nebraska, to remind me of seasonal events and attractions. Give me my Travel Guide and a copy of Nebraska Life magazine, and I can fill up a
calendar with penciled-in travel dates faster than a society debutante
at the beginning of her coming-out season! (I can say that --
proudly! I was raised in the South by a much-loved, true Carolina belle!) [;)]
So, as I look out my window and ponder the new snow covering our lawn, I can sip my cocoa in peace. Give us a break in the weather, a day without pivots to monitor, no fields to plant or harvest, and we're ready to ride. Our park permits are printed and in the mail. Nebraska, here we come!!!