Ogallala, Nebraska
This is pretty much what I looked at today. I left Eden Prairie at a quarter to eight in the morning on the first leg of my eighteen-hundred mile drive to Las Vegas. Today’s drive of about seven hundred miles took me through Iowa and most of the way across Nebraska.
I was a little disappointed in Iowa, actually. The first thing I noted as I was entering the state was that the signs for the rest areas claimed that they had wireless internet. I finally stopped at one of them and indeed, my PowerBook discovered an open wireless connection. However, although I was on their network, I couldn’t convince their captive portal to let me onto the web. I couldn’t open even the portal in Safari. Seriously, Iowa, get your act together.
The second half of my drive through Nebraska I listened to A Prairie Home Companion. I was pleased to find that there was a good public radio station. Strangely enough, it was being broadcast from Morris, MN. They even had the UMM Men’s Choir sing “Children of the Heavenly Father.” I was surprised, though, when Garrison said show was in the gymnasium. So as I prepare for bed at the Super 8 Motel in Ogallala, Nebraska, I leave you with a question: UMM graduates, is there really no better place (an auditorium or concert hall, perhaps) than a gymnasium from which to broadcast a radio program?
