I've tried a different method of linking to the pictures.
Have some bonus ones:
I did get to meet a bear....
Buffalo on the Blackfoot reservation
The dark underbelly of America. These two women are methamphetamine addicts. No health insurance, one a mother of two ( both of them in care) with the most recent being born two weeks previous to the picture being taken. No ante-natal health care whatsoever because of no health insurance. The other a mother of four with two of them in care. They don't have access to mainstream health care because they don't have health insurance. They were both under thirty and were entertaining conversationalists.
A 29' tall concrete penguin at Cut Bank, Montana. It marks both the coldest spot in North America, there's nothing on the high plains to stop the cold Arctic air blasting down from Canada, and the easternmost point of my journey. From Cutbank eastwards, I'd have been the tallest thing around for a thousand miles until reaching North Dakota where the crops in the maize fields would have been the tallest thing around for the next thousand. The Penguin was the most interesting feature of Cut Bank.
Larry, an ER doctor who insisted that I stayed at his home instead of camping in the
cycle store's grounds in Mazama because he had a shower and an English bar in the cellar. It was a tough call because the cycle store had a great bar too and I was going to be left with the keys to the premises so that I had access to the toilet.
= pain but I made it easily inside the time limit.
Nice memories, thanks.
