June 8 visiting friends

June 8, 2014

We're headed to Butt this morning from Billings.  We ate breakfast in our room.  George made it to Quick Trip and got milk.  Yeah!  Cancel the Divorce Party!   I would like to have gotten on the site several nights ago but George told Motel 6 we didn’t need the free Wifi.  I asked what he thought that meant and he said he didn’t know but he didn’t think we needed it.  I can see it is going to be a long trip.  We should be in Anchorage by June 21. 

The ride is beautiful and the mountains are so pretty.  We are going to see some friends in the mountains this afternoon and he hasn’t seen them since the 80’s.  I guess they live in the mountains and while we were talking one night, they said there was a bear and a couple cubs on their back deck.  Can’t wait to see this. 

Well we just got done visiting with his friends. C and T.  Beautiful, beautiful place up in the mountains.  We had Toto in their guest pen and he was not a happy camper.  We heard stories of the bears and now they have some cougars around.  C and T have to live with the threat of forest fires, bears, and cougars.   I will repeat a scary story C told us.  His wife, T,  was walking up the road coming from the post office probably a mile or so away.  One of the neighbors happened to talk to her husband and said he just saw some old lady walking up the road with 2 cougars following her.  T said she never saw them. 

Right after we left we got a text saying the bear was right there and had been watching us.  Toto probably saw the bear and was barking trying to warn us.  I have to admit it is beautiful though.