There’s a reason we don’t usually travel through the Midwest during the spring and early summer. It looks like this:
We often pack our handheld marine radio on our travels for access to NOAA weather radio alerts. Crossing the Midwest at this time of year made the radio more of a necessity than a luxury. When we left Shady Creek Recreation Area in Iowa, Alan and I were planning to spend one night at the Buffalo Country Fairgrounds in Kearney, Nebraska, and the next at Cabela’s campground in Sidney, also in Nebraska. After checking the weather forecast on the morning of our departure from Shady Creek, we realized we might need a Plan B.
