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DAY: 49  DATE: Sunday, Aug. 5  MILES: 338  TOTAL MILES: 6925

LOCATION: Grand Island, NE

COMMENTS:

    COAL The coal comes from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and is of the low sulfur variety and therefore highly desirable. This is shipped in 11000 ton train loads east and south. Connie and I counted over a hundred cars per train and each holds about 100 tons of coal. NE 2 parallels the tracks for miles and miles. Some trains were only separated by a mile. A fella at a gas station said that upwards of 20 loaded trains a day pass by. That's 200,000 tons of coal a day or 73 million tons a year.

    We met a couple of guys coming BACK from Sturgis. Like what is going on? The real news may be that the week before the bike rally may be the time to go. Jim Janchenko and his buddy have done it the last several years. He says the vendors are there but not the crowds and inflated motel prices. Speaking with another biker here in Grand Island he said the same thing. Hmmmmm, next year ....???? Maybe.

    Otherwise pretty much an uneventful day riding through the Sand Hills of Nebraska. Now, I don't know where to go. I think we'll just ride East tomorrow on I-80 and see where we end up.