Well, it was another day of driving! We woke up in Peru, IL and started our slow journey west. I knew the storms this afternoon were a long shot, I still targeted them but after stops and eating they were definitely out of range.

Driving across Illinois was quick, but driving across Iowa, it felt like that state would never end. I don’t know what it is, but every single time I have driven across Iowa it has just felt like an endless drive and this was no different!

Jen grabbed this shot of Des Moines as we scooted around the city on the beltway and continues along I-80 west.

The good thing about going west, aside from the storms, is that gas prices seem to keep falling endlessly. It was initially $3.90 a gallon in Michigan but this turned to $3.70 and eventually $3.49. Now in Nebraska, it’s down to around $3.30 a gallon, which you just can’t beat!

Another interesting tidbit about Iowa and many places in the great plains of the central interior of North America is that the land varies in diversity of plant life and geology greatly. In some areas it’s flat as a pancake, you can see for miles, in other places, you have large gently rolling hills and then of course there are those places where chasing is almost impossible!

While Iowa is certainly good chase territory, for the most part, it’s not flat, it’s pretty much rolling hills straight through, it’s not until you get to Nebraska in the west or Illinois in the east that the terrain really levels out.

Here’s a quick shot showing Omaha, NE as we zipped by! Jen was busy taking photos to keep herself occupied.And finally, the welcome to Nebraska sign.

So that’s all tonight, tomorrow it looks like it’ll be a western target again! We’ll probably be somewhere on the Colorado/Wyoming/Nebraska border chasing some big supercells in the high country!