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9/23/2014

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We head out this morning for parts in the near West. Tonight we will camp at Lake Anita State Park in Western Iowa. We've heard really good things about it and that there's a bike trail all the way around the lake.

Then tomorrow we will go to Lincoln, Nebraska and camp for two nights at Branched Oak State Park northwest of Lincoln. Butch hopes to play golf on Thursday with his brother Dan.

On Friday, we will continue to Fort Kearney State Recreation Area for two nights. Some of Butch's cousins are having a mini-reunion in Kearney and it should be interesting. There is a thread of insanity that runs through the Hildebrands. They tend to build their own planes, land on roads, things like that.

After Kearney, plans are much looser. We would like to go north into the Sand Hills. No cranes this time of year but my grandmother grew up in Grand Island, the youngest of five, and her mother died shortly after she was born. So she often spent the summers in Custer County with cousins who live in a sod house. There is a restored sod house there that would be fun to see.

Then we will head back to Iowa, maybe to the Loess Hills, maybe Okoboji, maybe both. Whatever, it will be another show.

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andy c
9/23/2014 05:59:44 am

Yes there is a spirited legacy in the Hildebrand lineage as well as the Musser lineage....so the sod house, Loess hills and Missouri River are among the stirring reminders of western discoveries. Visited Indian preservation sites and could feel the amazing culture there also as well as some respect for us all as the movements happened across a great land Christensens are located in Mitchell, area and Sioux Falls area. We are strongly pushing the "Don't text and drive" advice/laws, which I am sure you follow!

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Andy c.
9/23/2014 06:04:02 am

Actually, the Nebraska trip just led me down memory lane...these Christensen settlements are in South Dakota sharing that Nebraska heritage...sorry for that nostalgic moment!!

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