Driving back and forth from Missouri to Colorado gives you two options. Kansas or Nebraska, Take your pick. Kansas may have Bob Dole, prairie dogs, and balls of twine, but Nebraska has something unique...something considered one of the nuttiest, kitchiest, most amazing monuments to the stick-to-it-iveness of mankind.

If you're ever in western Nebraka and fail to visit Carhenge, you're missing something special. In 1987, artist Jim Reinders came back from England with a vision to recreate Stonehenge on the Nebraska plains, near the town of Alliance. So he dug, planted, and welded 38 cars into the correct shape and called it a day. Interestingly, the Roadside America review of Carhenge says that only 40% of visitors even know what Stonehenge is.

Other than that, the trip through Nebraska today mostly consists of nothing but mile after mile of highway. (I arbitrarily picked York as stopping place.) Sure, it's not a bad idea to stop by Chimney Rock, but the awesome spectacle of natural wonders pale beside 38 grey cars planted in the ground.

Day 7: Denver to York
Mileage Today: 601.2
Alliance Weather: 86°, cloudy
States: Colorado, Nebraska
Route Traveled:I-76 northeast to Sterling, CO 113/NE 19 north to Sidney, Rt. 385 north to Bridgeport, a quick detour to Chimney Rock, 385 north to Alliance and Carhenge, back to Bridgeport, 26 east to Ogalalla, and I-80 east to York.