A remarkable thing is happening at a rather unremarkable highway exit on the Iowa side of the Missouri River across from Omaha.
The 130th Street exit on Interstate 680 is surrounded by farm fields and connects to gravel roads. It offers no convenience store, gas station or fast-food outlet to lure drivers off the highway.
But on a recent Saturday morning, a steady trickle of cars headed east across the Mormon Bridge from Nebraska, pulled off at the interchange and parked at the roadside.
As many as a dozen were parked there at a time, each driver pausing for several minutes before getting back on I-680 and heading back into Nebraska.
