This is why I don’t blog. It’s 2019, and I still haven’t posted all the photos from Pete’s birthday trip. We’re nearing the end… hopefully I get through it all before his next birthday!
Carhenge was really special actually! When we first met (4+ years ago) he asked the receptionist at his hotel (or a waitress? or random person?) what fun things there are to do in Nebraska, and they said to visit Carhenge! It’s like Stonehenge, but made of cars, and it’s only about a 5 hour drive…..but at that point he hadn’t acclimated to midwestern temperament for drive times, so he passed.
I was really excited to revisit Carhenge – the last time I was in the area (Alliance, NE) was for a nonprofit art project. My university’s art club teamed with a child advocacy organization and we painted a mural in their headquarters. Obviously – when in Rome – we had to visit the cars just outside the city. Pete was a sport and let me recreate some of the photos I took the first time I’d visited.
Cool didjaknow – Carhenge actually aligns with it’s inspiration – Stonehenge! A few years back we had that massive solar eclipse? Yeah it lined up perfectly with Carhenge and Stonehenge (though the creator says that wasn’t even a deliberate thing??? which is much weirder so I don’t even know).
This far out in western Nebraska we made sure to see what my family calls the “big bunch of rocks.” But if you’re into history.. it’s still sorta cool. These were the milestones that people trekked months to see. The Organ Trail and the Mormon trail are still visible to this day – granted they just look like slashes in the grass….but thats years worth of hundreds of families enduring hardship looking for a better life. Maybe I seem a little intense writing this…. but my country only has like a bicentennial worth of history, and the fact that you can still see wagon wheel tracks etched into the dirt is pretty cool.
Pictured here is Scotts Bluff, Chimney Rock, and Court & Jailhouse Rocks.
I definitely hope that Pete got something out of this trip – we’ve done a ton of touristy stuff so far throughout our relationship so I really hope he enjoyed it…but to be totally honest these were some location I wanted to check off of my bucket-list.
Anyway I feel really lucky I’ve found someone that’s happy to clear their schedule so they can drive off into the dusty sunset with me, just to look at a bunch of rocks.
…to be continued
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