29-Apr-2024 -- Our sixth of six Kansas confluences in four days, and certainly the easiest. We pulled up in Walter’s truck at 10:50am and stepped gingerly around the 18” tall winter wheat pushing up through last year’s corn stubble. The confluence was maybe 20 yards off the dirt road, which serves as the border of four counties. It was 66°F and breezy, the undulating green waves of grain sheltering the meadowlarks, whose beautiful calls pierced the Monday morning air. We saw no one.

Afterwards we hoped to check out the Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse, Kansas, but it was closed, as was the Post Rock Museum next door. We sure did see plenty of fencepost limestone in these parts, as always. Lunch was chicken-fried steak at a roadside diner in La Crosse, and by 6pm we were home with our families in Fort Collins, Colorado. A successful road trip with good friends.