Thieves and the trains

Hello again. Micha spent Christmas in train! After driving for long time, Wayne and me take the break and eat some food in the diner. I never eat burgers so big before, with many onions. Lucky I still have the TicTacs left to make mouth taste nice again. When we finish eating food, we look for car, but it is gone! After searching for while, and old woman tell us that he see someone drive away in truck while we were in diner. Someone steal truck! First Wayne is angry and kick sign by road, but then the calm down and remember that he has many old coins in bag. He say he will buy new truck in Texas. Next to road is the train-tracks and as we try to think of what to doing next, a very very long the goods train comes by very very slowly. Wayne picks up our bags and starts running towards the train, yelling at me to follow. We run next to train until wagon comes by with open doors and we jump in. Inside train is dry and warm and we sit there watch the snow and country go by. Wayne explain that many people travel this way in the America. He say he needs to sleep a bit and folds out his sleeping bag. I write some letters to family Micha and look of map of the America. Texas is far away from Montana and maybe it will take long time to get there in slow train, but we have the food and water so it great adventure!
On the Christmas evening we sing American and Uzbek songs and I give Wayne the TicTac box as present. He give me some the old coins. Then we play the poker and Wayne much better than Micha, so we don’t play about who is doing the washing up..
Few days later the train stops at small station, and we sneak off. We find map and see that we are in the Kansas, which is closer to Texas and also place of the cowboys. We hitchhike into town called Hays, where we find motel and get clean. After that Wayne go looking for place to sell the coins and I look for post-box to mail letters for family. When Wayne comes back, he has big smile on face and say he made many many money selling coins. He also say he buy new car, so same evening we are driving for the Texas again.  Wayne drive all night and in morning we are close the Oklahoma. Everywhere is fields with many the cows everywhere. Wayne explain to me that in Texas there are many cows too, and the people who ride on wild bulls and horses in the arena, called the Rodeo. It sound fun but also dangerous. Now I can’t wait to go Texas. Maybe Wayne will ride bull?

Tags: Christmas, Kansas, Montana, music, Oklahoma, people, Texas, tic tac, TicTac, TicTac Micha, travel, United States

Mountains and the cowboys

So today Micha is in the United States of America. After driving for the long I am now in the place Montana, for wedding of Canadian girl and American guy, on big big ranch. Everybody welcoming and say I stay for wedding which last three days. I already promise to play music for guests at party. On ranch they have the many horses and I want go on horse. I met guy who says he is the cowboy. His name is Wayne and he live Montana all his life, wokring with the horses. He take me to see the horses and they are beautiful. I think I could go on horse forever into blue sky. Wayne is funny and ask me me many thing about Uzbekistan. He never heard of Uzbekistan before and ask if it is Africa! Wayne has never been outside of the Montana before, so not big adventurer like Micha, but he is cowboy and that must be big adventure too. He chews the chewing tobacco alot and keep spitting on ground. I ask him if maybe he would not rather have the TicTac because surely it is taste better. He likes, but say he will still chew the tobacco as well. Strange.

After a while he ask me if I want to help him find secret treasure? He say he has map that show treasure that is buried many years ago by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two explorer who come to Montana 19^th century. He say he has made drawing of map from story told by his grand father when he was little. Micha thinks this sound exciting! We make plan to go looking for treasure tomorrow morning before wedding, on horse! I think I stay awake all night looking forward to that.

I took picture of map Wayne draw for secret treasure.

Tags: Cowboy, Montana, tic tac, TicTac Micha, travel, treasure hunting, United States, Uzbekistan