The Place for Cappucino in Gothenburg, Nebraska

You know when you're traveling that sometimes finding something you really want is going to be very hard. In Nebraska we feared that would be good coffee! And when we left the interstate in Kearney to look for a coffee shop we learned that our fears were well grounded. Lots of motels, lots of fast food, even a few bars but NO coffee shop.

Oh,well, we pressed on, heading for Denver.

Then, gazing over the cottonwood trees beside the Platte, watching the traffic at 75mph, we spied a wooden sign: Espresso, drive through, this exit. Shall we, do we dare? We did. The rewards were lovely.



Just past the exit, amidst the gas stations and the museum to the pony express with a fake bison, stood a small shingled building, with a drive through, and a place to order your espresso. Feeling the need to exercise, we walked into the building, to find Angela and Mrs. Marsha Hecox behind the window ready to make espressos at the Lasso Espresso Company.

Ben, as per normal, ordered his extra extra extra extra skim dry cappucino...I went for double skim latte. We got to talking.

Mrs.Hecox was a patient at the local hospital in Kearney, and each time she had her chemo for cancer, she wanted a good coffee. She and her sister decided to open an espresso place in Kearney, 20 miles down the road from Gothenburg where she and her husband run a ranch. Husband suggested she open one close to home, so now, Lasso is the only place to get a good latte or a good ex-ex-ex-ex dry skim cappucino between Lincoln and Denver! (There is a Starbux in North Platte, but that's a chain).

Congrats to Mrs. Hecox who had an idea and went to Seattle to learn her trade, and has her beans roasted there specially for her. The smoothies are great too, and so is the home made beef barbecue sandwich. A wonderful piece of Americana.

By the time we left there were four other people in the shop...which has two tables inside and two cafe tables outside, looking over a huge plough used the dig up Western Nebraska sod.