I hope you two didn’t create a huge slow line of traffic for those three miles…

Dock. You can eat it... if you do not have problems with oxalates.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/everything-to-know-dock-rumex-species-3984477

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/53197-Rumex-crispus

Before reading what this actually was, I saw a large hammer on its side and wondered what that was about. Better as a bench.

Tentatively Mountain Park and Chambers Lake Campgrounds. Or as high as we can get on those days. Then over Cameron Pass.

Looking a little skeletal- better find some fattier foods to eat!

ooo Goatheads!!

Nice video of the inchworm. Family Geometridae moths.

https://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/lter/pubs/pdf/pub3739/pub3739_09j1.pdf

By the way, I too really dislike (bordering on hate) goatheads!

You mentioned three nights about 10,000 feet in Colorado. Where are your scheduled overnights?

That looks like a hoarder situation that someone's poor kids are going to have to deal with some day.

Johnny likes the “traffic jam”.

Haley said “that’s cool”

What a package! And very imaginative and creative of your sister.

I've been told that around 1900 there were more Swedes living in Chicago than in Stockholm! About 1/4 of Sweden's population emigrated following some years of bad crops. Many eventually moved on to Minnesota but obviously some made it to Kansas as well.

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Possibly….so many breweries there, so little time.🤣