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When I got up today I spent some time tidying up my truck, while doing
this the woman sleeping in her car next to my truck asked me to take a
picture of her in her car so that her friends might better understand that
she was comfortable and safe sleeping in the front seat of her car. I
spent an hour talking to Mary from Missoula, MT (another person from
Missoula) I then headed over to the new visitor center. there I discovered
that since 9-11 you have to call up to Dead horse and arrange for the tour
that takes you the last few miles to the Ocean, a day in advance because
they run a background check on everyone who takes the tour. I went back
over to the restaurant to let Mary know as she was also planning to take the
tour. I got on the road about 3pm and stopped in Wiseman just a few
miles down the road. I have a friend from way back that I had heard spends
time in Wiseman. I could never figure out why, I always imagined Wiseman
as being a kind of barren place way up on the tundra. Boy was I wrong and
I completely understand why people want to live here. But it's a hard life
no running water or electricity. Wiseman is kind of like a living ghost
town and a very interesting place, I didn't really stop in town to long
but did walk out to the river outside of town. and I drove up to Nelson in
the mountains above Wiseman, there wasn't much there. |
