O'er Amber Waves of Grain
After spending the last 10 days in Central Nebraska, here are some observations I've made.
-Everything you've ever heard about Nebraska being nothing but flat fields of corn is true. When my plane was landing in Lincoln, the runway was literally between 2 cornfields. 40 feet to the left and we would have ruined some poor farmer's weekend.
I-80 basically cuts the state in half, and it's the straightest, flattest road i've ever been on. I think i may have even fallen asleep for 10 minutes or so.
-Nebraska football is the only thing that matters more than corn. On the Saturday I spent there (when Nebraska played Iowa State) I was the only person I saw, other than those in worker uniforms, that was not wearing a red Nebraska shirt. This is not an exaggeration. EVERYONE in Perkins, EVERYONE I bumped into in my hotel. Everyone. I've never witnessed something like this before.
-It's really windy. There were gusts up to 40mph a couple days. I guess it's because there's nothing taller than 8 feet tall to stop the wind (mountains, buildings, trees, giant dinosaur statues.) Although everyone said the wind was always blowing in Nebraska because Oklahoma sucks. (see point #2)
-Nebraskanites(sounds right, right?) must love their mid to late 90s Top 40 music. I've never heard so much Seal and Sugar Ray in my life.
-Though I wouldn't have admitted it at the time, there were a couple times when the sun was setting over those vast fields of corn, where the occasional grove of trees were turning their autumnal colors, and when I'd only heard "Kiss from a Rose" once that day, that I'd crack a peaceful smile.
posted by philthy @ 11:20 AM
4 Comments:
Here's a factoid for you Phil:
Illinois produces 25% more corn than Nebraska. We easily could be the Fighting Cornhuskers instead of the Fighting Illini.
~Teresa
Also Phil, the only things Nebraska ranks #1 for in the United States are Great Northern Beans and Light Red Kidney Beans...so if you're there again, be sure to tell them that they should have a bean related name instead of the Cornhusker moniker.
~Teresa
I'm not joking when I tell you this...
I read somewhere that a Doctoral student a college did a study of the topography (that's the name of it, right?) of Nebraska and the same of a pancake. He found that Nebraska is literally flatter than a pancake.
According to this website:
http://www.freemap.com/atlasnec.htm
you should think again Jeremiah :)
~Teresa
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