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Alexis Park Inn & Suites
  1165 S. Riverside Drive
   Iowa City, Iowa  52246
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Flight to Reno

The flight out started off a bit hairy, with showers and scattered thunderstorms in Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska.

Once past the Omaha, however, the skies were clear, and it was smooth -- if slow -- sailing all the way to Reno, Nevada.  In fact, other than the 60 knot headwinds we encountered (which stretched our flight time from 9 to over 12 hours), the going was good!

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(Click here to see a short movie of the 360 degree rainbow...)


A 360 degree rainbow near Omaha, Nebraska!

Another view of the rainbow...

Very few people have seen a 360 degree rainbow...

It was just beautiful...

Round fields -- due to irrigation sprinklers -- are common in Nebraska.

Our first fuel stop, after almost 5 hours -- Alliance, NE.

Mountains are in our future...

A bit closer...

West of Scott's Bluff -- mountains ahead!

Interesting ridges...

So is that a fault line?

No place to set 'er down around here...

Things are starting to look tall in Colorado...

Our second fuel stop -- Ogden, Utah.

Ogden's control tower...

The Great Salt Lake desert ahead...

Beautiful and forbidding...

Great Salt Lake is shrinking dramatically...

How long could someone last down there?

Finally in Reno, right at sunset...

Mary with Atlas on the ramp in Reno, NV.