Friday, June 1, 2012

Week One

It's hard to believe, but we left Lubbock one week ago today! We attended the Ropes 2012 graduation ceremony and then hit the road to Amarillo and the AOTC Memorial weekend agility trial. The trial ended early enough on Monday that we decided to go ahead and hit the road. We drove from Amarillo to Pueblo on Monday. We spent the night in Pueblo and hit the road Tuesday morning and headed to Rapid City, SD with one small side trip to see the smallest town in the country -- Buford Wyoming -- Population - 1. Except when we got there it was closed, poplation - 0!!!! It was a little bit of a shock to get there and feel like we had returned to winter - it was about 40 degrees cooler than home (Lubbock). We stayed at Ellsworth AFB in Rapid City --- a really nice RV Park with lots of green grass for walking the boyz! While there we went to a Cowboy Cookout and visited the Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore. If you have not been there it is just as amazing as you have imagined. We left Ellsworth this morning (6/1/12) and drove to Minot, ND -- Chuck's first duty station. For those that don't know --- Chuck is from Florida and had never been anywhere else until enlisting in the AF in 1965. He went to Basic Training in San Antonio and then on to Minot for snow removal! Can you imagine the shock?!! He has not been back until now - 45 years later!!! We will visit the base tomorrow and see if he remembers anything! :)

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