Left last Wednesday to help my friend move out to Omaha, the trip started with a two day jaunt down I80, with an overnight stop in Indiana. Followed by a couple days in Omaha, and a flight back to CT yesterday night.

All in all it was a fun trip, second time I went out their, and I'm very glad to be back.

My impressions:

The driving is fantastic, roads are vast and wide, and generally in good condition. Drivers are also fantastic once you get out of PA, the New England **** you attitude goes away and is replaced by a friendly mid west attitude. Scenery is mostly corn fields, not really much to see.

Attractions:
Windmills and the worlds largest truck stop along I80, oh and did I mention corn fields?

Food:
Generally sucks, really bad once you get out of New England. Omaha was no exception. Since it seems no nationality makes it out their you can't get good Mexican, and the Chinese while usually a very industrious people haven't made it out their. Lastly the Italian is laughably bad, as is the pizza. I have come to the conclusion that unless you like Chicago deep dish, the further you get away from NY city the worst the pizza gets. I have had wood oven pizza in San Diego that was about the equal to what I can order from Dominoes here.

Essentially if you want a big hunk of beef, or some massive beef based dish your good. If you want something else your SOL. Eating healthy is a chore.

Now for Omaha.
Its a freaky city, mostly empty from what I can see. You can do stuff that would get you killed in New Haven like jay walk across 4 lane roads, simply because the city looks like a the world ended and no one is left. Most of the restaurants we went to only had a couple people in them, or we were the only ones. Bars, clubs, and night life? Doesn't really exist. A couple hang outs and no clubs except for a gay one. Mostly they are all empty.

Also I noticed Omaha is a city without any culture that I can see, other than lots of churches. Unlike cities that I'm used to like oh say Philly, Boston, New Haven, New York; when your walking down the street in Omaha you hear English. You don't see people from every country you can think of speaking different languages, nor do you get all the little shops and eateries that spring up because of all the immigrants. You can't get a meal at a little Spanish bistro owned by a gentleman from the south coast of Spain like you can in my city, that just doesn't exist out their. Lastly its to new, it feels like a city planners wet dream, not something that has grown organically over the past 400 years. Its also very easy to have fantastic world class meals in any of the above mentioned cities. But in Omaha? I would have killed for a little Jewish or Korean deli.

All in all fun trip, but I think I'll stick to CT.

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