bridge update: you kansans are probably going to be off the hook for bridge maintenance for your entire lives within a week. in discussing this bridge I have discovered that some local photographer knows of it and has asked permission and had their clients senior pictures taken under it or next to it or something for years. apparently it's cool for that though I have no real recollection of it being cool looking. also, once we agree with the state the plan is to take a loader and knock it down and just make a giant pile of old bridge wood and parts for some reason OR see if some local dumbass wants to come take it down and remove it in exchange for them getting to keep all the bridge pieces and whatever.
me - "Why are you going to knock it down?"
dad - [some fantastical hypothetical where there is a giant washout and the bridge being old and wooden is washed down stream for like 8 miles to where the road crosses our property and the bridge somehow blocks the road and we would be responsible for then clearing the road]
me - ........