Omaha, NE

[gspren]

It looks like my Navy ships reunion will be in Omaha the 3rd week of September this year. The only thing I've heard Omaha is known for is steaks and insurance, what else?

[gspren]

Well it looks like no one knows anything about Omaha. Maybe by the end of the year I'll be the one who knows.

[barbender]

Perhaps you'll be able to write the definitive travel guide?😊 I've been to Niobrara, but that doesn't help you. That could be summed up, remote small town by river. Decent cafe. 

[Magicman]

I know nothing except that I have driven through Omaha many times while traveling to Wyoming.  Once all of the way across Nebraska to Ogallala through driving snow that was not sticking so no windshield wipers were needed.  Crazy.  This Southern Redneck had never seen anything like that.    Of course I haven't since either.    From there we caught Hwy 26 which carried us on toward Douglas.  We made that trip for 6 straight years. 
Wow, it's hard to imagine the trips that we took during our younger years. 

[reedco]

    My aunt and uncle lived there for years.Went for their 60th aniversary. That was back in the earily 90s. She will be 98 this spring! Went to the zoo and a very nice aquarium.

[red]

All I remember is Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins 

[Ianab]

Travelling around NZ we often go "off the beaten track", or as I say "I know a shortcut"... Amazing what you can find that's not on the big tourist maps. 

[barbender]

I love  the back roads, Ianab. One of the aspects that I enjoyed working on a logging crew was all of the back roads you traveled and areas that you saw, that you would normally have no reason to visit. 

[customsawyer]

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't Omaha a long ways from the big water. Strikes me kinda strange to have a ships reunion without any ships.

[gspren]

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't Omaha a long ways from the big water. Strikes me kinda strange to have a ships reunion without any ships.

I understand why that could be puzzling. The crew members are from all over the country and since we have a reunion every year it's only fair to jump the reunion all over the country, we've had them on both coasts, on the Great Lakes and we like to see new territory. The ship, USS O'Brien DD725, was a WW2 Destroyer that also saw action in Korea and Vietnam. I was on the last cruise she made in 70-71 as a 18-19 year old so I'm about the youngest shipmate at a measly 73.

[Nebraska]

Well I just saw this thread sorry. The Omaha Zoo is one of the best in the country and Cedarman has some cedar beams in use down there. Joslyn art museum , the Durham museum is neat. The old market area has nice restaurants and shops. I will survey a couple people and see wha the consensus is for best steaks. Lauritsen Gardens, the Orpheum theatre is nice if there is a production going on.  They get off broadway stuff. Every couple years we go to the Manheim Steamroller Christmas performance there. I will come up with more. We are about an hour from downtown.   Oh yeah there's Cabela's, Bass Pro and a nice Scheel's store if you are so inclined.  @gspren 

[doc henderson]

I just saw it too.  I may work on auction items if desired.  I think the beams were produced in Oklahoma by @okmulch @Cedar Man son.  They are at the orangutan exabit I think at the gate.  You of course will not have time to see it all.  I think that is where we did wood fired pizza and had a tap room that was self-serve.