Weekend getaways are nice, and sometimes, much needed. All you need is an hour in the car and you’ve escaped. Even overnights can provide a much-needed breather from reality and routine. Want to get away for a little bit this holiday season? Check out what’s going on in some nearby cities (Grinches may want to…
Some unexpected things happened on a recent visit to Franklin County, Iowa. I was expecting farmland, small town friendliness and a vaudeville show. That all happened according to plan. I wasn’t expecting to learn so much. I wasn’t expecting my son to be so fascinated by a county museum. I wasn’t expecting a microbrewer in a…
I recently found a beach getaway that’s about an hour drive from Omaha (and by beach, I mean sand lake). It took until me the end of summer to discover it – and even longer to tell you about it. Sorry. Just tuck this little post in the back your mind for Summer 2016. My…
If you think about it, Nebraska has four food groups. Let’s explore the grub of the Heartland. Corn This is an obvious one. We don’t call ourselves Cornhuskers for nothing. Well, OK, we call ourselves Cornhuskers because of the NU football team, but the name comes from our agricultural roots. We love our corn….
If you keep up with Oh My! Omaha on social media, I recently took a quick trip to Kansas City with Mr. Wonderful for a concert. Before the trip, I asked for some dinner options because, weeee!, we’ll be able to go out to eat, linger, and not wipe anyone else’s mouth but our own….
We’ve been lucky to visit several Nebraska State Parks with the kids, though all of them have been in Eastern Nebraska. Chadron State Park, just a few miles south of Chadron in Dawes County, was our first Western Nebraska state park. This park was the most beautiful I’d ever visited in our state, though some…
