Posted on 06/16/2022 9:56:31 AM PDT by rintintin
A Florida family has come away from the disaster in Yellowstone with a deep appreciation for the people of Gardiner, Montana.
Mandy Callahan, a teacher from Bonifay, Florida, was on a long-planned trip to Yellowstone National Park with 13 other members of her family, and had spent five days exploring the area when disaster struck.
“We’ve had this trip booked for a year,” Callahan told Cowboy State Daily. “We took three of our children and their husbands, and five of our grandchildren, and my mother.”
Callahan said the family rented a large VRBO property in Gardiner, as well as four vehicles, with which they drove through most of Yellowstone the first few days of their trip. Then on Monday, the group decided to take a trip south to the Tetons.
“We went, and the north entrance was closed,” Callahan said. “And so we decided we would just hang out in Gardiner that day, thinking that it would open back up. We just didn’t realize the seriousness of it at that point.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...
Bonifay is in the very conservative panhandle of Florida. I think they may be stunned that the folks in Montana reacted like most Southerners would.
Ain't like that in San Diego anymore.
Good one!
They are only ‘stunned by kindness’ because they live in a very different environment than the rural west. This is how they live every day.
Uh-huh ... the train station ... well it usually is a one-way trip.
The diffence between red state and blue state, rural America and urban America, conservative and commie Leftist.
Here is hoping that don’t decide to move to Montana. Stay in Floriduh, folks.
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