07/21/2008
Nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit ...
Startling realization: bookstores in New York never stock travel guides about Nebraska.
Shocking.
Yet they usually have "Great Plains" sections with books on South Dakota (which do not advise about the total underwhelmingness of the Corn Palace), North Dakota (the most nondescript state in the Union; one of my neighbors in Lincoln who was from ND warned me to "never be pregnant in North Dakota"), Kansas (the state you drive through when returning from Kansas City, MO), Iowa (don't get me started), and Wyoming (which clearly does not exist).
Happily WikiTravel has a Nebraska page that tells travelers to be wary of gangs, tornados, and blizzards.
There is no place like Nebraska!
My poor new Civic doesn't know it's going to be traveling 1200 miles next summer and living in Lincoln for approximately eight months while I do the defense and graduation thing.
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