Genuinely fun fact! There is a place in Colorado (not Kansas, and definitely not eastern Kansas) that's called Firstview, for geographic reasons that ought to be pretty obvious
During this drive you can see the Rockies in the distance the entire time
I always think about the pioneers. What takes us 10 hours now, took them months
Imagine walking toward an unclimbable mountain every day for months, every day it gets bigger. Your wife and 2 year old son are exhausted and bored. You have a stupid donkey carrying a bunch of canned green beans or some bullshit. You’ll probably have to eat him at some point
Every day you wake up and walk what feels like the same land. Flat, boring, nowhere to rest. And every day the mountain gets bigger. Psychological torture