If you’ve been following our adventures somewhat regularly, you know that I have a goal to visit all fifty states by the time I’m out of my fifties (50 by 50 went out the window a few months ago). Driving through doesn’t count–I actually have to do something or visit something in the state. Enter our trip west on Route 80 from the Ohio/Pennsylvania border to Laramie, Wyoming, before veering off to head south to Denver, Colorado. On this trip, we’d go through three states I’d never visited: Iowa, Nebraska, and Colorado. In Iowa, we stopped to visit the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, a mere 1/4 mile north of I-80, but we had no idea what to see in Nebraska. After consulting my Roadside America app, I decided we should visit the Kool-Aid Museum, a.k.a. the Hastings Museum in Hastings, Nebraska.
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