Cruisin' Nebraska-- Part 4-- Fun Facts

Still using the 2010 Travel Guide.

** WAHOO is featured as the home office of the Late Show with David Letterman. There really is a place near Omaha called it. Check it out in Roadside America.

** OGALLALA was the destination of cattle drives on the Texas Trail and became known as the Cowboy Capital. You just have to love that name.

** CHARLES LINDBERGH learned to fly in Lincoln before becoming the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

** SHARKS AND TIGERS, OH MY!-- Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha is the home of the first test-tube tigers and was the site of the first virgin shark birth.

** UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-- the newest member of the Big Ten, er Big Eleven, er Big Twelve, well Big Ten Plus Two was called the Old Gold Knights, the Antelopes, the Rattlesnake Boys and Bugeaters before settling on the less colorful Cornhuskers.

Sounds Like an Interesting State. GO YOU BUGEATERS RAH, RAH. --RoadDog