Route: SHR ~ SHR 40 nautical miles around Sheridan, Wy
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| Almost caught the Bee coming in for a landing |
Larry Durante and his wife Mary hosted the three of us old Marines for the weekend, great hospitality, and the food was even better! The Cinnamon Hootch was especially good! We had a good time!
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| Front Gate |
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| Good thing I was born when I was, too tall for this wall! |
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| Durante, Kitz, Coolie - Still the same guys, just a little bigger, older with beards! |
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| Outside the front wall looking West. |
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| Coolie checking out the Fine Print! |
Great day walking around Fort Phil Kearney, and the Rosebud Battlefield Site. Our Docent for the Day Larry Durante is a font of Historical information about the various battles that took place in the late 1860's and 70's. We later went down to Buffalo to visit the historic 132 year old "Occidental Bar", infamous for its good beer and ladies of the evening! They still have beer, the ladies seemed to be long gone? The web site below has a lot of history, however I missed the bullet holes!
http://occidentalwyoming.com/
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| S/Sgt. Durante, Sgt. Oswald, Sgt. Kitzman, Cpl. Roberts USMC at Occidental Bar Buffalo, Wyoming. |
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| Getting ready for the downwind with Coolie in back! |
Had a great time with Marine buddies from Okinawa, and Vietnam that I hadn't seen in 41 years! Took Larry's wife up for a photo flight and we flew around the homestead to take pictures, then took Oswald up for a ride. His Dad had flown F4U Corsairs, F4F Wildcats, SB2C's, TBM's, F6F's for the Navy in WW2 & Korea! Visited historical Fort Kearny, then on to the town of Buffalo for drinks at the Occidental Bar; rounding up the day that evening with a slide show of pictures from forty-one years ago. Visited the Little Big Horn the Next day - quite an experience to see the sight of such a famous battle that I had long heard so much about. A windy night, and some kinda stuff in a Everclear bottle, not sure if it was paint thinner or gasoline, but it tasted kinda like Cinnamon.
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| At the site of the Little Big Horn Memorial early the next day. |
