The following day, I made it to Virginia City, Montana. I knew it was a tourist attraction when I saw that film was $6.29 a roll — twice the reasonable price. Virginia City was a restored wild west town, complete with Vaudeville show. In that wonderful show, I picked up my motto for the trip: “I can’t tame wild women, but I can make tame women wild.” I decided not to stay at the hotel there, which was $28 (expensive for the area), but instead opted for the campground, which was $2.50. The campground was loaded with flies — small change next to the killer mosquitoes of Wisdom. Crickets were common, too — they sounded like electric wires arcing.

the show was fantastic, i wished merrianne could have experienced it with me. the campground was 0.8 mile up a hill beyond town. piece of cake.