Nebraska

Airports
In Omaha, Nebraska, the airport that services here is Eppley Airfield. It is a commercial airport just a mere 5 kilometers from the central business district of Omaha. The largest airport in Nebraska, Eppley Airfield usually serves eastern Nebraska as well as western Iowa, northern Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota. [ More Nebraska Airports ]

Cities
Nebraska is a state with a significant number of cities and towns in it. From big cities to the quaint towns, Nebraska encompasses all types of communities. A state rich in history and culture, it is not surprising that the number of towns and cities here. [ More Nebraska Cities ]

Hotels
Visitors to Nebraska, or any place for that matter, have one important thing to consider before heading out. It’s not the transportation, it’s not the places to see or visit, but it’s to book accommodations for the duration of your stay. [ More Nebraska Hotels ]

Museums & Galleries
Nebraska is not just a state of cornfields and farms. Visitors to Nebraska will find that the state has a whole lot more to offer that meets the eye! Shopping is superb, the food is fantastic, and the sightseeing is stupendous. But more than that, Nebraska is a state that can feed the culturally hungry with its many museums and galleries throughout the land! [ More Nebraska Museums and Galleries ]

Restaurants
Nebraska, whose residents are known as cornhuskers, isn’t just a land full of corn. Restaurants here don’t just serve corn and steak, but a whole plethora of restaurants to choose from. Visitors to Nebraska will have as much fun enjoying the food here as well as visiting the tourist spots. [ More Nebraska Restaurants ]

Shopping
Aside from the usual sightseeing tours and other tourist activities, visitors to Nebraska can look forward to another activity that will surely keep tourists happy… shopping! Anywhere in the world, wherever one travels, tourists are either there for sightseeing or shopping. Even solitary travelers looking to do some soul searching almost always go shopping before heading back home. [ More Nebraska Shopping ]

Sports
Though really known for its professional sports teams, Nebraska has its fair share of sports teams to appease the sports fans looking to visit Nebraska. Visitors to Nebraska looking to satiate their cravings for sports can look to several of Nebraska’s sports teams for fulfillments. From college teams to professional teams, Nebraska can hold its own in the realm of sports. [ More Nebraska Sports ]

Geography
The geography of Nebraska is mostly rectangular in shape on the map, except in the northeast and east area since this part of the border is shaped by the Missouri river, and in the southwestern part where Colorado cuts a squared corner. [ More Nebraska Geography ]

History
Located on the Great Plains of the United States, Nebraska was once upon a time part of the Great American Desert however, the state is now a leading farming state. Derived from a Chiwere word that means “flat water,” Nebraska is so named because of the Platte River that snakes through the state. [ More Nebraska History ]

Hospitals
Visitors to Nebraska probably have it all figured out regarding their trip, accommodations, transportation, itinerary of sights to visit, business meeting if applicable and so on and so forth. However, there is one thing that most travelers forget to prepare for. [ More Nebraska Hospitals ]

Sammy is having a day out with his Mommy because his mother’s having a bad day and she needed a break in any case, leaving me in the house with my thoughts – because my parents are out on a date day as well. And my thoughts keep drifting back to Nebraska cities.

I’m currently staring at the fairly-abused map that I had used for my Nebraska game, the one that I had gotten my sweet, funny, smart and cute nephew to become addicted to. With my eyes, I stare at all the Nebraska cities that I had already mentally traveled to, all the Nebraska cities that I wish to truly travel to. Sometimes, I can almost imagine being already there in those Nebraska cities, taking in the sights, the smells the sounds, meeting the people, basking in their unique topography, geography and ecosystems. I want to really go to these Nebraska cities, because Nebraska cities are often steeped with singular histories and are very much special in their own way – whether they are known for their produce or their past or their people, or even whether they have the strangest of claims to fame, I want to travel to experience these Nebraska cities for myself.

I realize just how much my bones ache for these Nebraska cities, how much I long for them in a way that defines me. And I simply no longer have any more excuses.

I find it rather amusing that Donna had to sit through an entire rant of my Uncle Barry regarding the general evil that is the Nebraska highway. Of course, I don’t believe that there is a highway around here called Nebraska unless I’ve been really out of it for the longest of times, but I doubt that. Nevertheless, what Uncle Barry meant by the evil that is the Nebraska highway is just his theory that all highways in Nebraska are just that one single highway that was designed to scare the living bejeezus out of him. And let me tell you: when Uncle Barry gets into his “evil Nebraska highway rant”, you know that you will be sitting still for hours, unable to escape, not even into your own mind.

Going back to the real story, however, it turns out that the vehicle that they were using to get back here (Lincoln, sweet Lincoln) suffered a flat in a Nebraska highway, right when it was getting dark and when Uncle Jed had conveniently forgotten to get a spare. This got Uncle Barry even more convinced of this apparent evil of the Nebraska highway, Read the rest of this entry »

As happy as I am about the tradition and culture of sports (collegiate football in particular) here in Nebraska, I can’t help but feel lost whenever I get dragged into yet another convoluted conversation with my boys about thing like the Nebraska bowl. I simply call it the Nebraska bowl despite the vast number of bowl games that Nebraska’s ever gotten involved with because I believe that this craze to attend at least one Nebraska bowl game is in fact pretty much as legendary as the Nebraska bowl games themselves. Anyway, as I was saying, the reminiscences of various Nebraska bowl games that I get wrangled into (because I am apparently effectively one of the boys) always leave me bewildered and inadequate as a Nebraskan.

I mean, sure, I know that the Nebraska bowl games are pretty big events – Nebraska’s participated in forty-three bowls if I remember correctly, and if I’m to believe Knack, thirty five of those were consecutive: from 1969 to 2003. The fact that Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t quite understand what it is with a Nebraska fight song – we actually have quite a few Nebraska fight songs, but any Nebraska fight song is just about enough to get anyone’s spirits rising. I personally think that there’s nothing too special about a Nebraska fight song, not really, but I have to admit that hearing a Nebraska fight song being played, or hearing someone sing it, is about enough to bring tears of pride to my eyes, enough to make me want shout out with glee and say something aggressive like “Take THAT, Oklahoma!”. Seeing as a Nebraska fight song is played in some sporting events – the favorite being “Hail Varsity”, which is played after the Nebraska Cornhusker Football Team scores a touchdown. Something about a Nebraska fight song inspires the raising of spirits and a sense of being one in strength with all other Nebraskans. It’s a truly strange phenomenon.

I mention this now because I was hanging around with Wesley and my brothers (blood-related or otherwise) at the Read the rest of this entry »

There is something to be said about the kind of determination and stubbornness that we have come to foster within my cute little nephew Sammy. My case in point would be today, when he somehow got it into his head that he wanted to write about Aurora Nebraska. But since he thought that we can’t write about Aurora Nebraska until we hit it in the game, he actually AIMED for Aurora Nebraska…and hit it on the second try (the first try being too weak and ending up on the floor). So Aurora, Nebraska it is!

Aurora Nebraska is the county seat of Hamilton County Nebraska. What makes Aurora, Nebraska so special is the fact that the largest hailstone ever measured – measuring with a diameter of seven inches and a circumference of about nineteen inches – fell in this fair city during a thunderstorm back in June 2003. We’re not kidding at all, the hailstone that fell in Aurora Nebraska was featured in an article for National Geographic, and that’s something.

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My uncles called up my mother to ask her for a Nebraska road report – you all probably know what a Nebraska road report is, but for the sake of the clueless, I shall explain: a Nebraska road report is essentially a traffic report, an update on the status of the roads that help a person figure out which routes to take when traveling around the Nebraska area (or anywhere else in particular). I should think that almost every place has a service, program, or website that is dedicated to something like a Nebraska road report. In any case, Uncle Barry had called my mother up about the Nebraska road report because they were preparing to get the two boys home to Lincoln from Kansas (south of state of Nebraska) and they didn’t exactly have proper access to a Nebraska road report at the moment.

So I helped my mother look for the latest Nebraska road report, and we were quite worried to realize that while getting to Lincoln would be fairly easy – as most of the places south of Lincoln seemed to be fairly clear according to the Nebraska Read the rest of this entry »

One of my older acquaintances, Mischa, had to file for Nebraska unemployment recently. Not that Nebraska unemployment is so bad – the Nebraska Unemployment Office, according to my friend Mischa, actually has some pretty nice people working for it, and working to help the unemployed. But I know for a fact that if someone as smart and talented as Mischa could fall into Nebraska unemployment and find herself having to dip into the unemployment fund of Nebraska, then I realize that I’m really scared for my future. I’m not as smart as my older friend, after all, and I haven’t even found a job yet. The very idea that someone better than me is currently facing Nebraska unemployment makes me doubt my own ability to find work in this state.

Of course, she claims to us that her Nebraska unemployment status has everything to do with the fact that she get fired on principle – I personally interpret that as “my boss thought I was too smart and felt threatened”. Still, I find myself Read the rest of this entry »

Donna is still trying to figure out which Lincoln Nebraska newspaper she wants to patronize, even though she’s been staying here for months already – and even though she grew up here, and in that time, I distinctly remember her not liking to read the newspaper in the first place. But as it turns out, Donna just wants to patronize a Lincoln Nebraska newspaper in an attempt to have a semblance of order in her apparently chaotic life. She claims that perhaps being a loyal reader of a Lincoln Nebraska newspaper will help her get her life back on track, as it would make her more aware of what was happening in the world around her – it would make her more responsible, she says.

Which reminds me that despite my earlier convictions with regards to becoming more aware my surroundings as well, I hadn’t really read any newspapers, especially a Lincoln Nebraska newspaper, in what feels like ages. It’s a good thing, then, that our father always picks up a copy of the Lincoln Nebraska newspaper, the Journal Star, as part of his daily Read the rest of this entry »

So yeah, it seems that Sammy noticed that I hadn’t played the game with him in a while, so he decided that I should be harassed for it. There’s something rather endearing about a boy his age trying to get his Auntie’s attention by trying to set her hair on fire (I acknowledge what my mother had said before; that I am far too indulgent when it comes to my nephew). Anyway, after pretending to not care about his feelings – we don’t want him to think that naughtiness solves anything – I promised him ONE round of the Nebraska game. We ended up hitting Wahoo Nebraska.

Wahoo Nebraska, the county seat of Saunders County Nebraska, is, in my opinion, one of the most aptly-named cities in America. For one thing, it has created for itself a kind of notoriety when it enthusiastically lobbied for the honor of becoming the “home office” of Late Night with David Letterman’s Top Ten List (it’s been the “home office now for almost twelve years). I vaguely remember being told as a child that Wahoo Nebraska, probably the craziest city in the state, had Read the rest of this entry »