Aug.25-27,2004
Thursday, we decided not to go on the trails and just check out the town. This is where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane are buried. There is no parking on the streets of town, but there is a trolley that will take you anywhere you want for 50 cents a person. There are no chain stores or restaurants there. Population 3,800. There are severl museums, many casinos and the restaurants are few, but half casino/half restaurant.
Thursday night was the final dinner, silly awards were given and then we head back to the bus. The next morning, we met up with Mark, Maribeth and family and decide to go to Devil's Tower in Wyoming, since we were so close.
Devil's Tower is a monolithic rock formation that is supposedly the core of a volcano- the rest of the mountain has just eroded away. Legend has it, that 7 little Indian girls were chased by a bear, so they jumped on a small hill an prayed that the mountain save them. It started to grow and grow and the Indian girls went up to the sky and became constellations. The marks on the side of the mountain were made by the bear trying to reach them.
After that, we turned South to Denver. We stopped to see my best friend, since kindergarten, Harvey, and all had dinner at a very nice Italian restaurant, named
"Il-Fornaio". Mark and the boys had a job in Denver, so they stayed, Maribeth and Markie (her daughter) headed back to Oklahoma and Jimmy and I headed home to Texas. We stopped in Lubbock to visit my other "best friend" since childhood...Peggy and her family, then home to Fort Worth. All in all, a very nice trip, without too much incident.....except the damage to the Hummer....oh well, Battle Scars Ha!
next, we go to Hollywood!