Knob Noster State Park, MO

On August 29, I drove to Knob Noster State Park, about 50 miles west of Kansas City. You're probably wondering, "What the hell does Knob Noster mean?" Since I am concerned about your welfare, dear reader, I spent 4.7 seconds looking this up on the Internet. Here's what I found: apparently there are some knobs or something that were the site of an Indian battle or something. So there you go, don't say I never did anything for you!

Knob Noster State Park was surprisingly nice; the weather was perfect, and a persistent breeze kept the bugs away.

For some reason, whenever I pitch my tent, a daddy long legs immediately appears on the roof. I don't know why that is. Do they like orange?

When I was a kid, I remember hearing that the daddy long legs is extremely poisonous, but is incapable of biting humans. However, I came across a sign at Knob Noster which said that this is not true. The daddy long legs that live in the U.S. do not have venom glands, nor do they have fangs. But, there is a spider in Australia also known as the daddy long legs that is quite poisonous, which is the source of this urban legend.