June 3: Long Time In Lincoln

This is my fourth night in Lincoln, Nebraska. I plan to stay a fifth night to wrap up errands before continuing to Nebraska City, crossing into Iowa, and heading north along the Missouri River. It’s called the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, continuing to just above Sioux City. That is one of the 275 scenic routes in a National Geographic guide I found at Rose Cat Coffee and Reading Society – an awesome and inclusive place in Lincoln with a large take-or-leave collection of books. It was the first one I saw. (I intended to leave an oracle deck, but ended up not being ready to part with it.) 

It’s been raining for 19 hours, and at times I was bailing eight ounces of dripping water every hour. It got up to 58 degrees, which is a huge drop from yesterday’s uncomfortable high of 92. Tomorrow should be 75. Weather is crazy everywhere every month of the year.

This break in travel gave me time to settled down – there’d been so much crammed into the eight days before I arrived I shouldn’t have been surprised I was burning out. The next leg is more leisurely, and I have reservations for those five nights. Spare time will be used to keep abreast of weather alerts because so many storms are severe, reread parts of eBook I’m reviewing for PaganPages, and continue checking for a Litha gathering, ritual, or event to attend.  

The photo was from my first night here. After the rain came a rainbow, then a second you can barely make out to the right of it. There had also been a single rainbow in another part of the sky an hour earlier.