Wheels of War and Woods of Time ending in Denver

Today was hot, hot, hot day and despite Nebraska being the "arbor state" there are very few trees to offer shade, so we skipped the hike.

As we traveled across the flat, open land of Nebraska we saw a sign for the Heartland Museum of Military Vehicles in Lexington, Nebraska, so of course we had to stop to see what it was all about. ( I know it seems like we are doing a lot of veteran/military stops, we assure you, they are purely by chance. ) 😆 but still enjoyable!

"You can climb inside"...don't mind if we do. It was pretty cool to hang out and move around (a difficult thing to do in the cramped quarters .... and there were.t even any munitions inside!) in a Bradley M2/M3 Bradley fighting vehicle.

And that wasn't the only vehicle we could climb on. we also were able to get in a Huey helicopter.

Ode to one of our favorite Shows M*A*S*H

The military Museum has 100 authentic vehicles and other military memorabilia from every branch of the service. many of the Vehicles are fully restored and operational.

Here are a few more things that we saw:

Unbeknownst to Tracey, the next stop that she wanted to make at a petrified museum was started by two twin brothers that were Korean war veterans and there we are back on the military trail....

Howard and Harvey Kenfield from Ogallala, Nebraska were drafted into the Army and served together in 24th infantry division in Korea. They began collection Indian artifacts which lead them to collecting petrified wood.

This collecting led them all over the world and as you can see from some of the beautiful items; they come from the USA to Ireland to China.

We ended the day just outside Denver Colorado for some dinner, not too far away from Meade St.

See you tomorrow for more adventures.