As we were driving away, we were both asking each other...What did we forget? So, far we haven’t identified anything! Mark reset the trip odometer and the journey begins.
It was a long day of driving and pulling a camper - 396 miles. We departed at 8:30 and stopped twice for gas. Mark was a pro at pulling in and leaving the pump. He has been concerned about taking one out! We had lunch at a rest stop. Truckers must be bored because they came up to meet Kate.
We arrived at our first Harvest Host location at 4 pm- Kimmel Orchard and Vineyards established in 1825 . This is a pretty cool program. You pay $67 for the year and you get a list of wineries, farms etc that you stay overnight for free. They only ask you to support the small business with a purchase. Easy enough to do. Apple donuts for breakfast and some salted caramel honey because it sounded delicious!
Spaghetti dinner was alfresco on a lovely evening in the home city of Arbor Day.
Arbor Day had its beginnings in an area not always associated with trees or forests—the Great Plains. In 1872 on April 10, Morton Arboretum founder Joy Morton's father, living in Nebraska at the time, decided to set aside a day for planting and calling attention to trees, as the newly formed territory was a land almost entirely devoid of trees. That date became the first Arbor Day, when it is said that Nebraskans planted one million trees. The birthplace of Arbor Day was Nebraska City, where the Mortons lived in their home called Arbor Lodge. In 1885, Nebraska officially declared April 22, as Arbor Day.
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