Wow!!! That looks like something a minion would drive-lol!

About GPS devices and elevations/grades:
Our tech gadgets can basically have three ways to guesstimate elevation - map data, barometric pressure or GPS signal. All have their problems.
With map data, the navigator uses the GPS position signal to look up the elevation from the map. But in many cases, like if you're in a road cutting, this will not be based on the current road surface but on where the surface was before the cutting was made. These can obviously be very different.
Barometric pressure needs to be recalibrated as the weather changes, which can often happen during the course of the day.
GPS signal elevation readouts are notoriously inaccurate. The satellites' orbits are quite low, so the angles are poor for z reading.

Add to this that when you're in canyons, the x/y position can be thrown off by a lot because the direct line to some of the satellites gets obscured and your receiver picks up a signal that has bounced off the rock wall on your side, and this makes it look like you're actually riding inside the cliff face. So what's the elevation of that?

A darkling beetle. If disturbed they stick their abdomen in the air and might spray a stinky substance. We called them stinkbugs as kids.

https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/262422

Golden-mantled ground squirrel most likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-mantled_ground_squirrel

Long needles, probably a ponderosa pine

http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Tree%20Enlarged%20Photo%20Pages/pinus%20ponderosa.htm

Looks like wallflower

http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/Yellow%20Enlarged%20Photo%20Pages/erysimum%20capitatum.htm

Looks like birds foot trefoil

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lotus_corniculatus

Another beardtongue

Flax
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/60490/browse_photos

Beardtongue. According to one website there are over 10 species of blue beardtongue in that area.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48367-Penstemon

Way to go, Kathie!

I found it. Veiny dock, a species of Docks. Also known as wild begonia, winged dock. The botanical name is Rumex venosus. It is a close relative to rhubarb and buckwheat.

This Jesus looks like another one we met years ago along the Columbia River when we did the Lewis and Clark tour. I remember eating breakfast in a cafe. When Jesus found out that I had a sore, stiff neck, he offered to give me an adjustment right on the spot! I was a bit leery, but had him give it a try. A quick twist, and all the pain and stiffness were gone!

Thanks Debbie..I’ll just be happy if the wind is behind us.

Get your rest now, you're in the mountain west now. Also Rawlins, WY is the windiest town I've ever driven through in my life. I was pumping gas in Rawlins and my legs were getting sandblasted by the dirt in the wind. Here's to no wind and clear, safe trails!