Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Loosing Ruthy

Brydn's 2003 Travel Journal - Montana: Loosing Ruthy

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My pickup breaks down. I put forward my best effort in repairing the thermostat and water pump. I end up in a dream about Grants Pass, Oregon.

Last Chance Gulch, Montana, 7:42am.
I walk to checkers. I buy a thermostat for my truck. I ask about a solenoid. It would take a day to get here If I order before 4pm. I get some "orange" hand cleaner and a distributor cap. I walk to JB's Restaurant for a "Meat Lovers Special" and coffee with cream and sugar. The waitress keeps going around saying, "If I'm not at work tomorrow, I'm in jail because I down loaded a song off the internet last night," over and over. Could the only gold left in Montana be what someone will say? I walk back to the Motel 6. I'm heat struck by 10am and 91`. I put on my flight jacket and sit in the air conditioned room to recover. I replace the thermostat. I fill the radiator with water from the room's ice bucket. I check out by 11am. I test drive almost to Fort Harrison and over heat. I refill radiator. I drive 4 blocks and park under a tree. Man, I must of screwed up with Ruthy somewhere along the line. You can sure feel the Air Force here. I go back down the hill to Checkers. I buy a water pump and some radiator leak fix. I walk to Conoco with bucket. They don't have any water. I ask permission to work on my truck in the back parking lot and then replace water pump. I haven't changed a water pump for 2 years. Finish up installing the pump. Then I return the stop leak for a super stop leak and #10 mm wrench. I can order a fuel filter, but that will be for tomorrow and by 4pm. I test drive my truck to Fort Harrison. Then, I go to Last Chance Gulch.

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DREAM: I am at Adams place. There are people who have stopped by. We're outside having a picnic. Lots of food I've provided. The place is on a hill surrounded by forest. There are two large towers with cable to travel above the valley. The neighbors walk up the hill to visit. I'm leaving in my truck. The neighbors are leaving in theirs. They have their little blond boy outside of the truck. He's climbing into the back of their truck. I'm back at Adams place on the hill. We are walking down the hill where I notice a building; white outside, with stairs going into the basement. I start going down them and then ask Adam what is this. "It's for the AAA meetings," he says. I go, "Lets go get high in there." First half of the room has a circle of seven chairs on a nice carpet. Two of the chairs are nicer than the rest. There are books and papers. Some of these are on some of the chairs. In the back half of the room are benches. There are bright pastel papers cut out in different shapes; circles, triangles, squares, strips...