I have gotten really far behind updating this blog. Today is Friday 6th July and this is the report of happenings of two or three days ago! Sorry about that, but INTERNET access didn't always cooperate.
We stayed overnight Sunday (1 July) at a Travelodge in Livingstone MT; I had made this reservation a month ago, thinking it was an Econolodge that Rachel and I had stayed at two years ago. It wasn't; furthermore, although it is a higher class motel by far, it was a most disappointing stay. Cross that one off my list for good!
Getting up early and starting out Monday morning (2 July), the Grand Mother and Grumpy made Buffalo WY before noon and, after checking in at the Blue Gables (this one is definitely on our list if we come this way again!), we found -- with Garmin's help -- the home of our old friends, Dee and Wilbur Warnick.
Grumpy hadn't seen Dee and Wilbur since about 1949 when both Wilbur and I were going to SDSM&T. Wilbur was standing outside the garage door as we drove up and I recognized him without difficulty. It's a little shocking for Grumpy to realize that all his old friends from his youth have become old and grey! Or bald.
Dee had fixed a nice lunch and we soon sat down for continued visiting and eating. After lunch and more visiting, Wilbur showed off his gun collection (he has some 1800's rifles; one is a single-shot Winchester from the era of Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn), and his trap collection (Wilbur has traps ranging from big, mean bear traps that look they could break the leg bone of a man or beast, down to little spring traps that would be suitable to snare a rabbit). Dee and the Grand Mother bragged about each other's grand children and great grandchildren (the Grand Mother had Dee outshone twenty ways from Sunday on this count!!).
We stayed overnight Sunday (1 July) at a Travelodge in Livingstone MT; I had made this reservation a month ago, thinking it was an Econolodge that Rachel and I had stayed at two years ago. It wasn't; furthermore, although it is a higher class motel by far, it was a most disappointing stay. Cross that one off my list for good!
Getting up early and starting out Monday morning (2 July), the Grand Mother and Grumpy made Buffalo WY before noon and, after checking in at the Blue Gables (this one is definitely on our list if we come this way again!), we found -- with Garmin's help -- the home of our old friends, Dee and Wilbur Warnick.
Grumpy hadn't seen Dee and Wilbur since about 1949 when both Wilbur and I were going to SDSM&T. Wilbur was standing outside the garage door as we drove up and I recognized him without difficulty. It's a little shocking for Grumpy to realize that all his old friends from his youth have become old and grey! Or bald.
Dee had fixed a nice lunch and we soon sat down for continued visiting and eating. After lunch and more visiting, Wilbur showed off his gun collection (he has some 1800's rifles; one is a single-shot Winchester from the era of Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn), and his trap collection (Wilbur has traps ranging from big, mean bear traps that look they could break the leg bone of a man or beast, down to little spring traps that would be suitable to snare a rabbit). Dee and the Grand Mother bragged about each other's grand children and great grandchildren (the Grand Mother had Dee outshone twenty ways from Sunday on this count!!).
Later, that evening we met and had a steak dinner with Karl Wurtz, with his two boys, and his twin sister, Kathy. Karl had driven over from Thermopolis and Kathy had come to Buffalo from Gillette (now a city of about 40,000!). 
Both "kids" (we had them as foster children for about 4 months many years ago) seemed genuinely glad to see us; Kathy has become a professional photographer (her $1000 camera with stabilization mode, etc., outshone mine by a long ways!), but is keeping her day job which has something to do with home construction I believe.
We plan to see Karl again 14 July when we make a quick stop in Thermopolis before continuing on to Lander WY. Kathy said she was going to try to make it over to Thermopolis on that day also, to see us again.
It was good to have these brief visits in Buffalo and we look forward to seeing all again at our next opportunity.
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