Experiencing New Things

Here are the non-highlights of the adventure Jill and I took to Rapid City, South Dakota this past weekend.

#1 - Fresh Start Convenience Store, Lusk, Wyoming - The sign on the wall inside the men's restroom read something like this, "If people continue to pee and poop all over this restroom, we are going to have to close it for good and no one will be able to use it any more." I went in to the men's bathroom because Jill was in the women's bathroom. Oddly enough, the strong smell of urine in the men's bathroom didn't keep me from using it. It's too bad I only saw the sign after I was done. Only in Wyoming.

#2 - Lame Johnny Creek - who was Lame Johnny? Was his lameness somehow associated with the creek? Did people really call him that?

#3 - Hill City, South Dakota, while waiting in line at the Alpine Inn for famous steak - an older, heavyset woman clad in a blue and black plaid flannel shirt, jeans, and yellow tinted sunglasses rode by on a 4-wheeler. She had a confident and contented look on her face as her white hair blew haphazard behind her, her small, equally frizzy-haired companion, a white poodle, nestled between her legs. And then her husband rode into the picture as well. Matching 4-wheeler, flannel shirt, white hair, belly, and poodle. As a single person, there are glimpses of married life I see and vow to never become.

#4 - Old Woman Creek - not such a thought-provoking creek as Lame Johnny, except that I found it amusing that there was no water in Old Woman Creek. It was quite dry and shriveled up.