Early this coming Monday morning, I'm leaving on a 10-day road trip. The first day, I'm driving to Salt Lake City where I'll meet-up with Dennis, an old college/Army buddy (and former CIA Deputy Director). Then on Tuesday we drive up to Butte, MT, where we'll have dinner on Wednesday with Dennis' sister and her husband. On Thursday we head East for our real destination, a small town outside of Fargo, ND, where another old college/Army buddy of ours is in a nursing home. Kim has no family, except for a sister, who lives overseas, but we were all friends and have kept-up which each other over the years, attending Kim's wedding (which didn't last all that long), and meeting him in different parts of the country for lunch or dinner or just keeping in touch on the net.
Anyway, he's recently fallen on hard times, lost most all of his assets and is currently a ward-of-the-state and confined to a nursing home suffering from dementia and perhaps Alzheimer's as well. He does remember some people and he is lucid most of the time. We've talked to his court-appointed advocate and he thinks this visit would be very good for Kim. Both Dennis and I are bring a bunch of old photos from school which we'll be leaving with him, so maybe this will help.
After seeing Kim, we're going to head down to South Dakota and then West, back to Salt Lake City, where I'll drop Dennis off for his flight back to Virginia. I should be back home late on Wednesday, May 1st.
Note that both Dennis and I are serious amateur photographers and we're planning to make a lot of stops along the way, documenting all of the sites and interesting place that we plan to visit. I've got a list of 18 potential things to stop and see, and of course, we'll probably find a lot of other opportunities for some great shots along the way. Note that Dennis, despite his travels all over the world when he was in 'government service' (that how he describes it to most people when asked), he's never been to North Dakota. BTW, we've done this sort of 'photo safari' two other times, one 9, and the other, 11 years ago.
We'll post an update and perhaps some pictures when I get back.
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