West of Nowhere

It was my kinfolk, John Fremont, that gave Nebraska its name. ‘The Pathfinder’ was the first to explore the Nowhere State from where Rena Christiansen hail. This is why you see a covered wagon on the route 66 sign above. Folks going West took Fremont’s Oregon Trail to the coast to behold the great Pacific Ocean. In 1970, Rena took a road trip from Grand Island Nebraska to Los Angeles California. She loved it, because when she got out of the car in all those stops along the way, Americans took note;

“My my! She’s a real American Beauty!”

It was like the Statue of Liberty had cone down from her lofty perch in New York, and had gone to see the sights, gone to look for America. It is the dream of Carla Sarkozy, the first lady of France, to take a road trip along Route 66. Carla is…