That museum was quite a find. Nice stuff in there.

Wow. Rough weather, but what a beautiful gallery of photos you came away with!

Yup, it is the sunflower state!

White flower ipomopsis

http://www.kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=343

We don’t remember Hecla at all. I do remember the rest of the day though. There was a downpour in Hyannis, and I went up to a farmhouse for shelter and watched TV with them until the storm broke. Afterwards, I saw the first red phalaropes of my life, spinning circles on one of those lakes you biked past: and I think white pelicans. The day ended in the drunk tank of the Alliance jail, where I spent the night as a cheap lodging option. It was fine until a real drunk showed up about 3 AM. In the morning they brought us both cinnamon rolls and coffee and sent me on my way. Very hospitable, those Cornhuskers!

Scott,
I don't know about the aspirin.
What I want to know, is which establishment you visited when you passed through Hecla?
Jeff

Big Red’s Cafe! I remember this place, from over 40 years ago. Big Red was still there then, I think. But where are the aspirin? My pancakes were served with aspirin on top.

Yup, these look like the Sand Hills I remember from 45 years ago. Doesn’t look like all that much has changed. If I remember correctly, I stayed in Mullins too, or maybe Thedford, sleeping on the couch of a guy I met in a bar over dinner.

V-8 water pump? Is it pushing an irrigation system?

Evening primrose. There are over half a dozen primrose species in that area according to one source on line, so I am not completely sure which. Possibly common evening primrose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenothera_biennis

Whoa on the noon mileage! Good on ya.

Arrowhead. You can eat its tubers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittaria_sagittifolia

Smartweed.

http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Survival/Pages/smartweed.html

I had one of these.

Scott,
I'm afraid I'll remember York as nothing more than a bypass town, since that's what I did!
Jeff