A Lone Elderly Man with Broad-Brimmed Hat.
"A lone, elderly person wearing a broad-brimmed hat watches us put the cycles on their stands and remove helmets and goggles. .. "Hot enough for you?" he asks. His expression is blank. .. John shakes his head and says, "Gawd!" .. The expression, shaded by the hat, becomes almost a smile. .. "What is the temperature?" John asks… "Hundred and two," he says, "last I saw. Should go to hundred and four.".. He asks us how far we have come and we tell him and he nods with a kind of approval. "That’s a long way," he says. Then he asks about the machines. .. The beer and air conditioning are calling, but we don’t break away. We just stand there in the hundred-and-two sun talking to this person. He is a stockman, retired, says this is pretty much ranch country around here … “
Big J Restaurant, Bowman, ND. When I walk up to the Big J Restaurant, camera in hand, I encounter this Lone Elderly Man. This is by pure coincidence! This is almost too good to believe. Since he exactly fits the above passage I ask him to pause for this photo.
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(Photo = 104-0444c ...... ZMM Page = 067 ...... WayPt = 077`|u|' 2960ft)