On my second day of Summer Vacation I volunteered at Golden Spike Natinal Historic Site located at Promontory Summit. It was also K's last day as a ranger there--last day of his four year tour of duty. He began on 8 June 2008 and there was no legal way for them to keep him past 7 June 2012.The picture above was taken by K atop the Jupiter, a wood burning steam locomotive. That's me talking to Leslie, the Superintendent. She usually wears civilian clothing to work and changes into her uniform in her office. She was going to ride the Jupiter to the Visitor Center with us, but decided she could get there faster by walking, so she hopped off. I had ridden the 119, but never the Jupiter, so I checked that off my bucket list, thanks to the engineer!
After our day at the Spike, which I will write more about in other posts, we went to our hotel room in Brigham City (since we gave up our apartment on the 31st) and enjoyed having the pool all to ourselves. Then we drove back to Corinne to have dinner at Golden Spike Burgers--great food if you're in the area. We were driving back to the hotel again and asking each other questions such as, "Anything else we should see/do for the last time?" We couldn't think of anything. It was just a nice relaxing evening as we thought back over the day with the wonderful comments that K's coworkers had made about working with him. All in all, bittersweet.
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