If you're from Montana you will understand the title right away. If not you will have to visit clyde park, MT some day to fully understand. We went up to Silver City, ID in the mountains south of Murphy this weekend.
It was an hour drive up a windy dirt road that seemed to take forever. We drove into town and immediately got pulled over by the sheriff. There is one stoplight in the entire owyhee county and we blew right thru it. Turns out that one of the locals operates the stoplight from the general store and he turned it red as we were half way thru the intersection (if you call the convergence of two rocky trails an intersection). So the sheriff threatened me with some prison time, but I agreed to make a "donation" to the local watchman fund and he let us go on our way. We had lunch and walked around the town. After seeing the condition of the town I regretted my "donation" to the sheriff, because I'm sure I could have pushed the wall of the jail over, caused the building to fall down and made an escape. Instead we visited the church and confessed our sins before heading on to the cemetary. While walking among the dead we found one headstone in particular that caused some concern. It read "Here lies John, died by hanging for making fun of backwoods type folks that live in run-down shanty-towns". We decided that was our signal it was time to leave. We all hopped in the suburban and left in a cloud of dust (avoiding the stop-light this time).
Thanks for the memories Silver City, we'll be back as soon as we feel the need to have our lunch eaten by a wandering pack of dogs and meet some more "true" idahoans (the kind without teeth)!
Aaron
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