So people told us that driving through the
middle States here in the U.S there is nothing to see! Absolutely nothing! Well in today's video we're going to find out as we head south! good morning and welcome to Sidney Nebraska here in the U.S, it is absolutely freezing this morning! We spent the night last night in a Walmart car park here we arrived late it was one of the only spots we could find on the way on IOverlander. oh - come into the warmth! It is absolutely freezing! It is! I heard a little bit of a noise last night, and looking at the table there is the remnants of a little bugger - a little mouse! I have
absolutely no idea how it got in, it must have got into one of the vents because we haven't
had the doors open because it's been so flipping cold! How on earth can they get in? I don't know ! But anyway the first job of the day then before we hit the road is to show you the plan for the day, and then to go to Walmart to buy some chocolate - Yay! for The Mousetrap not for you Marianne! We are currently here in Sidney, So the plan for the today is we're going to cut across here, come down into Kansas, through Oakley down to Garden City here, and then down to Liberal on the border with
Oklahoma, cut across the Panhandle here of Oklahoma, and then eventually reach our destination
here in Northern Texas - to Amarillo! Of course finding a mousetrap isn't easy
it's not in the hunting section, it's not in the garden section, it's not in the house section, it's in the home chemicals! And these places are absolutely massive I mean you can get lost in Walmart! I've actually decided that Walmart constitutes mental health, because you can't find anything, you get lost, you get stressed, you get anxious - they're the worst places for shopping quick ! It's the ultimate shopping strategy because you just like wander for hours, like where is the mops? home - oh it's over, there home cleaning Okay we're armed mouth strap and Snickers! We do actually have a Humane Mouse traip in the van, and this is a it says it's a Precision strike
quick mouse trap, I don't really want to kill it but I don't want it in the van either - so fate will determine the mouse's fate! Right let's go and see if there is anything interesting in the centre of the United States, we can't go anywhere
because the wing mirror is covered in ice! Not perfect - but good enough - You are my hero ! I don't know whether you can see
but all of the trays are all white Frozen white, they look very very
festive - look at that, that's beautiful! well literally a mile out of Sidney, and we're
back into nothingness as far as the eye can see! It's very remote - playing I spy would be very dull! Okay so this is the first point of interest that
we've managed to find online on the way down welcome to the Sioux Army Depot
which was opened back in 1942. it was actually used to store ammunition during
the World War II, Vietnam and the Korean War and uh the ammunition is hidden in mounts in the
ground so they're actually invisible to see from the air, a very good way to hide your ammunition,
it's the only ammunition stump here in Nebraska. it's got a whopping 1971 acres is the land it
covers, which is huge! And it was closed back in 1967. Nowadays the Mounds are actually used
for Farmer's storage, and other types of storage We're just driving a little Loop to get
back on the main road you can see all the mounts in the distance here and they actually
really really do blend into the land, they just look like natural mounds, you would never look for it here! Driving along we could see that the grasses are glistening and that's because they're covered in ice! There must have been like a little bit of an ice storm last night? Okay it's too cold I'm going back in ! Driving through these lands
is there's lots of farm silos so maybe storing grain or something like that. This gas station's full of trucks, and we're just trying to work out whether we can fill up here? oh yeah there's one there look! We're on our way to Amarillo!
Do you remember the song? it was a very long time ago - I think it was Peter Kay - yeah I might be driving your nuts by the time we get into Amarillo! By the time we get to .... Amarillo !! Okay so after the first hours drive,
it's official there's not a lot around here! To be fair, we are still hoping to find some
interesting things on the way though so the journey down to Amarillo is
around 500 miles - it's a long way I will probably take us a day and a
half to two days to get down there. Okay one of Google shortcuts! We're coming off the interstate, and we're going cross-country. There's a big train coming! Listen
to that you can hear it horning! Marianne's jumping in the road, the guy's horning! I love that absolutely a massive though these trains are like one or two hundred carriages long, look they've got another engine in the middle I'd definitely feel like we're in one
of those movies, where we're trying to race with the train! We're not racing
a train, I am not speeding - we're not speeding! But it is very cool, and I'm sure when we
get to the front we'll give us another horn! He's giving us a proper nice
horn, to send off there - isn't that lovely! you see how much fun can you have driving down
the road like that, in the middle of nowhere! I'm just looking at Google Maps we've actually
just done a little shortcut, we just clipped into Colorado which wasn't part of the plan! But it won't be for longer will be in in Kansas. Half an hour later we're going
over a bridge with the Train passing! How cool is that?! I love it, he's waving! I love that! He is so cool! That's so nice, you're going off into the distance down there, that's the thing these roads
are so big and so empty, you can just stop in the middle of the road!! We just past the sign that says no snow plowing from 7 P.M to 5 a.m - I have never ever seen a sign that says that before ! Why shouldn't you
snowplow overnight? Can you imagine how pretty this would be in the summer? This is all as far as the eye can see sunflower heads! They've all died back now, but in the season that is absolutely mile after mile of sunflowers! There's something about the shape of the barns here in the U.S that look so stereotypical to us Brits traveling through. and they definitely reminds
me of twister of the movie - I've said it before! But I feel like I am in the movie of Twister,
we're going down through Tornado Alley and this is the landscape
that you see on the movies. So we're just arriving into the town of
Hollyoak, not to be confused with Hollyoaks the TV series in the UK! Well it's very industrial with the train lines, the silos for the farming. I suppose the Train's just dip in and this is where all the agriculture products would come here and get loaded onto the train? A very small town, literally just a couple of streets
and even a town this size as a drive-through ATM.... The landscape is just starting to change, it actually looks
like we're in the middle of sand dunes... They are! Wow - I never expected
to see sand dunes today! Okay we're making progress - that is the
sign to say we've just left Nebraska! And that is the sign to say we have made it into
Kansas baby! Home of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz! We have made it to Kansas !! And just a little bit further, look we are entering the central time zone! So we've just changed another time zone I'm not actually sure whether it's
forwards or backwards - but we'll find out! It's nearly 12 o'clock, you're a bit tired
Mariana? Honestly I think that's the hardest part, it is so beautiful, it's so quiet, but I don't have cruise control so it's just like... okay we're stopping for a bit of lunch, we've got some wraps and some hot dogs and some salad going, but while we're sat here we're looking around to see if we can spot that little naughty Mouse! And so far we haven't heard him, have we? We are just sat here watching at the end of the field
here, there are probably about 10 deer that just walked past there's still one there looking at us! uh-oh
we've just realised there's another bit of mouse memorabilia !! Memorabilia ? it is only memorabilia when he is dead !! Did he chew the wrap? Yes - oh my god - well bin the wrap he has chewed ! He has not been in the packet? Hold on Fisher! I think you'll find .... He has been in that one! what's worrying is I've just eaten one of these! No - but it will be all right! Okay quick refuel and we're off, I love our van Trudy - she's amazing! she is! it's a half past 12 lunch time
and still got a long way to go So we keep getting alarms - there's been a child
kidnapping - abduction? in the area, and they keep giving updates on the car, which is great I mean
that your phone alarms! we haven't subscribed to anything, and it says Amber Alert - the updated vehicle type is a station wagon not a sedan. There you go - kidnap person is an 18
month old child - do we have that in England? I don't know if we have an alarm system? We should have that ! that's good just driving through Kansas and the
farming communities continue loads of tractors, loads of silos, loads
of corn, loads of straight roads! We're just having a little bit of a sing song to Adele Marianne's laughing, because I just said looking at the map it's only probably we're about halfway to Baja Mexico from where we crossed in from Canada, and it's probably only about six good days driving! And at that, she just lost it !! Five or six good days driving you said - it's not that far! Okay we are turning off and we
are five miles to our next destination that we've found on the way, it's going
down a little bit of a dirt road here. It's a bit bumpy and a bit Sandy! All the best places are down the worst
roads as we say! That is Absolutely true! Washboard roads - never fun,
Bob's having a bit of a fit There is a lot of vibration, you would think the mouse would want to leave by now !! If I was the mouse, I would be knocking on the door saying - LET ME OUT! There you go five dollars for a pass,
so we've arrived at little Jerusalem that is at Badlands State Park,
there's a few different Trails, because we're kind of short of time, we're going to do the short overlooked Trail, the green one here it's about probably half a mile
quarter of a mile each way, it is good to stretch the legs - but this is a really interesting route on our way down through Kansas. That's a bit creaky ! So the park here covers an area of 313 Acres, there you go you can see the park the structures coming up in the distance here. this is Kansas's
most dramatic Neobrara chalk formation So here you go this is little Jerusalem Badlands, isn't that fantastic actually looks a little bit like Cappadocia - sort of rock formations that we saw in Turkey, so this was once underwater, this was a great sea, and they found swimming and flying
reptiles here dating back 85 million years old. That's incredible, so here you go we've
made it down to the Overlook point which gives you a nice View of
the stone structures there. Some people say that it got its name
little Jerusalem, because the stone structures resemble that of Jerusalem City wall. So that was cool we're now back on the
washboard roads and we're headed to Garden City. Well it's that time of day the Sun is going down
we are nearly at Garden City, we've looked on iOverlander, there are no spots in Garden City whatsoever, but we're going to go look for the trucks because wherever the trucks are parked, we'll be able to park, that might be a Walmart, that might be a Loves, but we'll see, we will find someone to park, The place that we wanted to see in Garden City is now closed, so if we sleep there, we can take you there first thing in the morning! So there you go, dinner is served, homemade buffalo mince from when we stayed in the ranch they gave us some mince meat, Yes Susan and Scott in Dakota at Belle Fourche - shout out to you guys! we made mince with it ! And we're having Buffalo fajitas, salsa, guacamole and cheese Do you think he's learned this lesson? This didn't kill him! it didn't kill him - it it trapped him! Yeah yeah we got him, and he's just gone out the door and we he was still alive! And I didn't know what to do! So I chucked the whole thing outside and then I panicked! I thought I can't just leave her running around with the trap on his head! oh it's a good end of the day! He's run off under the van - hopefully he doesn't come back in! I think we should set it again just in case he does! Just leave it down there - shall I? yeah, i will put a bit more chocolate in?.Yeah He hasn't eaten it has he? oh it's gone - he had his dinner! oh yeah I put it you never know there might be more than one! okay I'm lying in bed and I heard the mouse
trap go again! No !! I did, yes he came back in overnight after we let him go, and let him live - he came back in and he is well and truly... dead in the trap now! sorry mate! but it's good that you're
not in my van anymore! Technically he is still in the van! technically he's in the van - but not for long !! And he ain't going to be running around eating my food anymore, that's for sure! Good afternoon, yes it is actually afternoon - - it's lunch time, and we've woken up in this Walmart car park, I cannot believe that we caught the mouse, we let it go, and then we caught it again! What is the chance of catching the mouse twice - in the same night? I know - I think everyone should get a second chance, but in its case it didn't quite work out! don't let this beautiful blue sky deceive you into thinking it
is a warm day, because boy I tell you that wind is really really cold! It is Savage - a minute outside
and you've got to come in! But we're continuing our journey South, we've got a cool place to go
and see in Garden City before we leave, and then we'll continue our journey down to Amarillo across
Oklahoma and into Texas, thanks again Walmart Fantastic really isn't it,
to have somewhere, when you get there in the dark, you don't know where you - it's handy! It is
flat too! We're just driving through the burbs and this road looks stereotypical of The Burbs with little porches and little houses, like that one with the U.S flag flying - very nice! We're just arriving, even the squirrels in the
US are bigger than back home - they're massive! Okay we have arrived at the Finney County
Historical Museum here in Garden City, Open 1-5, seven days weekly, oh and it's free admission! preserving the path to Enlighten the future! This Museum's very cool, it gives you a bit of a look back into life in olden day Kansas, like this the old kitchen, look at that for a stove! so it says here that no 19th century
kitchen would be complete, without an ice box - on the left hand side there
would be a block of ice, that was 50 pounds - put inside with a pan underneath
to collect any water as it melted, and that would keep the food and anything
in there cold - the original fridge! This rattlesnake skin is actually taller
than me, and we were saying about Tornado Alley - well it shows here an example of a twister, this was in 1967. oh wow So this apparently this is the largest
giant hair ball in the world! 55 pounds! Thirty seven inch circumference! Now I've just learned that cows like cats, lick themselves and others so do genuinely get hair balls, but they normally come about this size -
so that is the size is bigger than a soccer ball! Oh that is cool ! And it is the actual hairball ? Yep - Can I touch it with my finger? Yes you can touch it with your hand, oh really? - it's completely condensed
isn't it, it's absolutely solid - yes they x-rayed it and it is solid hair. it feels a bit like a pool or
a snooker table, like a pool table it feels like when I've just
shaved..... oh my goodness !! Some of you may recognize this
book 'in Cold Blood' it actually talks about a murder that happened here
in Garden City, this family was murdered by this man here, he came out of jail, he heard
there was a safe in this guy's house, went to rob the house, and in fact there wasn't a safe and he killed the family, a tragic story, they've also got a display here from a bank job that happened from
the Fleagel gang and in this cabinet here there is in fact a bit of glass with a
fingerprint, and this is the first ever fingerprint that resulted in a conviction! And they've got the piece of glass with the fingerprint right here in the museum. So that was a very cool little Museum and now we're heading south to the town of Liberal because we found something else very cool on the way down. And then just like that we leave the
town and we're back into open space! The people that we have met in Kansas have been incredibly polite and call us ma'am and Sir ! it's a very friendly state, as soon as I walked into the fuel station the guy was like hello
ma'am, How can I help you? and I was like driving down through Kansas, we've seen
lots of these nodding donkeys, I think they're getting oil or gas?
Does anybody know? oil or gas? And are they called nodding Donkeys here ? I think so we are just arriving into the town of Liberal, This is the last big town before we cross the border into Oklahoma, and it is the home of something pretty cool that we're going to see on the way through, Turn right onto Yellow Brick Road, then turn right onto East Cedar Street. We have come to a very
special place here in Kansas recognise Dorothy? so prior to the 1970s - Dorothy
from The Wizard of Oz was just from Kansas. Then came Mark Zimmerman the insurance broker
from Liberal, he was at a function and the waiter asked him where are you from? He said from Kansas and then he said to the waiter if you came to Kansas what would
you expect to see? and the waiter replied Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz! And that is how this place was born, welcome to Dorothy's house here in Liberal. We're off to see the
wizard the wonderful Wizard of Oz ... The movie playing there, oh look you can buy sparkly slippers - so you can click your heels! And I love it you've got the Dorothy
costume on? yeah, Is that the staff uniform? Well if you are a tour guide it is! Okay Dorothy we have a guided tour coming! Oh the magic starts! Have fun - thank you very much! So Dorothy's actually taking us on a little guided tour now, I'm excited to see the house that killed the witch! we're reversing? and this is the yellow brick
road? yep yeah so this is Dorothy's house? I'm so excited - look at this! And that right there is a pot belly oven and this is how you would heat your house, and if you look in that room in the middle room there's a little pop and that is the chamber pot, and it was basically a toilet if someone was in the Outhouse. It would have been the youngest child's job to empty it - I an not sure I would trust a toddler to empty something like that?
No absolutely not ! Okay, any ideas what this is? uh um a stand to put something on? it is the toaster! The toaster - if you have to see these little prongs right here, oh okay you put your bread on that, You would put it on your burner right here, okay. We just saw some tins with some rope and immediately I remembered as the child with my sisters having tin cans with the string, and having as far away as possible to make a phone, but Dorothy was just explaining that because the stream's not in the middle it's actually on the side these would have been stilts, and as a child, you would have put your feet on it and you would have gone gone around and used them as Stills! How cool - flashbacks! Okay we're going
into the land of Oz! oh yeah awesome! Uncle Henry We're going to the Next Room quick! Are you a good winter bad witch well I'm not a witch at all, I'm Dorothy from Kansas - why do you think I am a witch? the little people of the flats said a new witch had come along and placed her house right down the old witch yeah the shoes are sticking out - you
wanted to see the witch's legs! So this is the actual model of the house
that they used in the movie, and at the end of the tour you come into this room with a
different memorabilia which is just great. Well wasn't that a unique experience?
absolutely loved it Dorothy the guide she got properly into her role, she has got so
much information and goes into everything single detail, all the facts about the movie, all the fun
facts, facts like the paint that was on the Tin Man and had real aluminum in it real and he died of cancer ! And also the snow on the scene when they walk across the field, it actually had asbestos in it! Yeah - we have just arrived in Oklahoma and it still looks really sparse! The sun is going down but welcome to Texoma! You might be thinking that sounds a little bit like Texas and Oklahoma .... and the reason for that is
this town is quite unique, because the state line for both Texas and Oklahoma runs straight
through the town - and that's why it's called Texoma. About half a mile to go until
the border and we're at we got our eyes peeled to see if we can see
the state lines to show you. Just like that we've arrived back in Texas,
State Line - amazing! And now we have probably an hour's drive and then we'll find
somewhere to park up. The landscape is pretty well the same flat and loads of farming
fields, and a nice Sunset to end the day. Okay so we found a spot on iOverlander, we normally try not to arrive in the dark, but today we are so it all goes according to plan
there should be a park with a free RV sort of Park up next to it, yes
this is it - yeah ! Yeah this is it! Good morning, this is what the parking spot
looks like in daylight, it was obviously dark when we arrived, very cool little Park up we
noticed this in Texas when we came through last time, through the South they have a couple
of little free RV parks so you could stay for 24 hours, electric - we didn't need it, they've even got water and a dump station and bins! So we're catching up with all our chores before
we do the final push to Amarillo! So we're all packed up, chores done and we're
off to Amarillo, it's about an hour's Drive we have made it, we are in Amarillo! Don't leave me hanging - join us on the next episode
where we explore the famous Route 66
