In about 2 weeks, my friend, Kent, is transferring from one mental institution to another. Even though I have known for about a month that he was going, somehow the heart of that fact did not hit me until today.
It is easier to provide the support a mental patient needs when they atleast reside close by. It will be difficult to give him his weekly/monthly visits when he is so far away, especially in some remote part of the world called Nebraska. And even more particularly: Peru, Nebraska. Who on earth would move there? But I suppose when you have mental issues, a quiet, unassuming place would be an ideal setting to spend some serious years getting healthy.
So Kent, this is for you. Today. When I am sure you are having more fun than me, and I just want you to know that I am pouting.
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Me too! :-(
Guess we'll have to plan a road trip...
Isn't Nebraska famous for it's progress in assessing and treating mental disorders?
No, I think it's famous for CORN.
Well when you to go to the corn capital of the world, while visiting Kent, you might wat to visit these road side attractions.
Alda: Monument: Where Brothers Were Pinned Together By An Arrow
Alliance: Carhenge
Alliance: Dobby's Frontier Town
Alliance: Hay Bales, Toilet, and a Chair
Arapahoe: Our Lady of Fatima Shrine
Arthur: Hay-Bale Building
Arthur: World's Smallest Court House
Ashland: SAC Museum - Wienermobile on the Airfield
Auburn: Hamburger Man - A&W Root Beer Character
Aurora: Edgerton Explorit Center
Axtell: Smiley Face water tower
Bayard: Chimney Rock's Indian Name
Bellevue: World's First B-52
Blair: Tower of the Four Winds
Boys Town: Girls and Boys Town
Boys Town: World's Largest Ball of Stamps
Burwell: Two-Headed Calf
Central City: Wedding Capital of Nebraska
Chadron: Museum of the Fur Trade
Clay Center: Tour: U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
Colton: TV Antenna Sculpture Thing
Crawford: American Flag Painted House
Deweese: Dodger the Basset Hound Grave
Eli: Petrified Wood Grave Markers
Fremont: Half-buried Basketball House
Friend: Smallest Police Station
Gibbon: Smiley Face Water Tower
Gothenburg: Sod House Museum
Grand Island: Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
Gretna - Ashland: Lighthouse Nowhere Near Water
Hastings: Andy the Footless Goose
Hastings: Birthplace of Kool-Aid
Hastings: Dine and Dress Like a Diva
Hastings: Kool-Aid Man's Footprints in Cement
Hastings: Kool-Aid: Discover the Dream
Hastings: World War II Bomb Depot
Hebron: World's Largest Porch Swing
Holdrege - Sacramento: Faceless Fred the Ghost
Holdrege: Nebraska Prairie Museum - German POW Story
Kearney: Great Platte River Road Archway Monument
Kearney: Oxen Pulling a Prairie Schooner
Kimball: Missile Center USA - ICBM Missile
La Platte: Hamburger Rock - Vague Recollections
Lexington: Fall of Saigon Recreation
Lincoln: Charlie Johnson's Museum of the Odd
Lincoln: Giant Chicken, Piano Requests
Lincoln: National Museum of Roller Skating
Lincoln: Touchable Children's Museum
Louisville: 2nd Best Restroom in America, 2004
Lowell: Boot Hill Cemetery
Milford: Muffler Man
Milford: Teepee Motel
Milford: World's Largest Covered Wagon
Minden: German POW Urinal
Minden: Harold Warp's Pioneer Village
Nebraska City: John Brown's Cave and Secret Tunnels
Nebraska City: Tombstone in Shape of Desk
Neligh: Motel Room Wall Damaged by Michael Landon
Norfolk: Johnny Carson Display
North Platte: Fort Cody Trading Post
North Platte: Golden Spike Tower - Plans Stalled?
North Platte: Swimming pool shaped like Nebraska
Northport: Shoe Fence
Ogallala: Crystal Palace Revue
Ogallala: Petrified Wood Exhibit
Ogallala: UFO Water Tower
Omaha: Balloon Bomb Plaque, Soda Jerk Hang-out
Omaha: Betty Ford Rose Garden
Omaha: Boys in the Plastic Bubbles - Zoo's gorilla view
Omaha: Butternut Coffee Can
Omaha: Dine While Raccoons Scavenge - Alpine Inn
Omaha: Gondola Boats in Omaha
Omaha: Heartland of America - Computerized Fountain
Omaha: Hospital Grotto
Omaha: Performing Art Sculptures
Omaha: Sapp Bothers Coffee Pot Water Tower
Omaha: Signs: Malcolm X Born Here
Omaha: Sonja Henie's Ice Heart
Omaha: Union Pacific's "Big Boy"
Omaha: Union Pacific's Big Boy
Omaha: World's Only Hospital with a Nuclear Reactor
Paxton: Big Ole's Game Lodge
Plainview: Klown Doll Museum
Scotia: Happy Jack Chalk Mine
Scottsbluff: Hay Bale Roadside Rest
Seward: World's Largest Time Capsule
Sutherland: Boots and Steel Sculptures
Syracuse: Otoe County Museum of Memories
Waterloo: Sleep in a Union Pacific Caboose
York: Backyard Zoo
To read more about these wonderful Nebraska sites visit;
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/location/ne/all
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Might I suggest, on your whirlwind tour of NE, that you pass over the Klown Doll Museum in Plainview? I've been, and trust me, it's absolutely petrifying!
Might I suggest you actually come to the beautiful "Campus of a Thousand Oaks"? One of the oldest and most beautiful colleges west of the Missouri River. We would love to have you...or you...or anyone...come to visit! ;->
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