We left Methodist Cove Campground around 7:30 am on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 for a 4 1/2 hour drive west to a Cabela’s in Sidney, Nebraska for a 1-night stay.
Cabela’s
And I don’t mean the parking lot of a Cabela’s, I mean this Cabela’s has an honest to goodness RV park with full hook-ups! Sites are gravel and level. They were a little close together but for one night it was manageable.
We arrived around noon Mountain Time after leaving the Central Time Zone on our drive. After we got set-up, we walked to the retail store and let them know which spot we were in and paid for our night.
This place turned out to be a popular spot for campers. When we arrived there were two other spots occupied. By the late afternoon the place was almost filled.
After quick showers to it was time for some lunch. We had originally planned to go to a nearby Applebee’s before doing some grocery shopping (so we wouldn’t be hungry while shopping for food, you know), but on our drive we had seen billboards for a place called Runza. And there happened to be one right down the street from our site.
Runza
What is a runza? Well, if you’re familiar with the Russian pierogi or the Texan kolache then you’ll have a pretty good idea of what a runza is. It’s a “pocket sandwich” with an almost pizza dough-like outside and a filling usually made of ground beef, onions and spices.
It’s particularly popular in Nebraska because European immigrants, particularly Germans, brought the recipe with them when they made their home in the Cornhusker State.
Sally Brening Everett, the daughter of a family who immigrated to Nebraska, started a food stand in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1949. Working with her family she made some changes to the original runza recipe and also trademarked the name “runza”. Her son took over the business in 1966 and began expanding locations around Lincoln and other parts of the state.
The Runza restaurants offer variations of the pocket sandwich with different fillings. They also sell burgers, chicken sandwiches, homemade onion rings and shakes.
So, we decided to try lunch at Runza’s; Cindy wanted to try the runza itself (I don’t care much for loose meat or ground beef sandwiches), while I wanted to try their homemade onion rings. Cindy opted for the BBQ and bacon filling in her runza.
She thought it tasted “OK”, but it was very messy and the filling was leaking through the dough casing (as you can see in the photo) which made it soggy. For my part, the “twice-breaded, homemade” onion rings were very bland and tasteless, but their double cheeseburger was very tasty.
So we probably won’t ever try another meal at Runza but at least now we know what it is and how it tastes.
After grocery shopping we stopped by the post office to mail our oldest grandson’s birthday card to him (I’m hoping the USPS can get it to him in a week’s time, but not convinced they will), then went to the Dairy Queen drive-thru to get Cindy a small Blizzard for dessert.
Thursday morning we enjoyed breakfast at a nearby Taco John’s. When I was deployed to Hot Springs, South Dakota (wow, was it really almost a decade ago?) I had Taco John’s breakfast almost every morning before work and loved it. When Cindy visited me there for a week I could not wait for her to try it and she loved it as well. So when we saw there was a Taco John’s just across the Interstate, we knew we’d be having breakfast there before leaving. Afterward we fueled up Voyager for the drive that day.
Then it was back to the site to drain and flush Nomad’s tanks and re-fill the fresh water tank before leaving for our next electric-only stay in South Dakota. Since we had full hook-ups we made sure to flush the black tank several times. By the time I was done the flush water was running clear, but I still couldn’t get Cindy to agree to drink it, lol!
We were racing the clock to beat forecasted rain, and we lucked out. Just as I was getting into Voyager after doing my final walk-around check of Nomad before leaving, the first drops of rain began to fall.
I love it when a plan comes together. (Extra points if you recognize what 1980’s TV show that phrase comes from.)
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THE A-TEAM!! Would a 16 year old know that?
ROFLMAO, good point!