Fort Cody Trading Post & Golden Spike Tower - North Platte, Nebraska

Roadtripping across Nebraska, had to stop at the Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte. It is pure roadside Americana - part museum, part gift shop. Fort Cody contains one of the coolest exhibits in Nebraska - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, over 20,000 wooden carved charicatures displaying scenes from Buffalo Bill Cody's historic Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill lived in North Platte, Nebraska and started his groundbreaking Wild West Show here.

Fort Cody also contains a two headed calf, a Native American Muffler Man, and John Wayne Toilet Paper!? Well worth a stop right off Interstate-80.

Also featured in North Platte is the Golden Spike Tower - you can take an elevator ride to the top which provides panoramic views of the Union Pacific Bailey Yard. This is the largest Railway yard in the world! An estimated 14,000 rail cars are handled here every day. So take in the incredible sites and watch the trains go by and listen to the endless chorus of train wheels screeching on the steel tracks. How often can you say you've seen the largest train hub in the world!

Outro Song: Explorer's Theme - written and performed by me on piano.