...a healthy herd of cattle, free-grazing right at the Preston Monument.

I did decide to hop out of the Subie and let the dogs out. I figured the cattle wouldn’t do me or the dogs any harm – and indeed, they simply watched us do our thing. I think the presence of a truck and a human may have been a sign for refreshment of some sort for the cattle as their numbers increased as we lingered. The monument is a pleasant, new-looking granite post set so that two of the faces were in Colorado and each of the other two faces were in New Mexico and Oklahoma. This was an easy monument to reach, but getting to the next tri-point from here wasn’t as easy as I thought it’d be...