Last Chance Hotel Room 871 & Room 873
Room 871 & Room 873 By James C. Garland Grandpa Donaldson was looking forward to this trip. It had been a long time since he was able to take a vacation with all the long hours he put in as a Locomotive Engineer for the Northern Pacific. And he had not been to this part of the country in a long spell. Grandpa Donaldson needed this vacation going back as far as he could remember as he kept putting off a vacation for many years. But he wasn't getting any younger and it wouldn't hurt to take time off. After all Grandpa Donaldson not only felt he needed it but he deserved it. All that was left was to arrange to hitch a ride with a company train as far south as he could go, then rent a car as he got closer to his destination to where he wanted to spend time with relatives and old friends he had not seen in years. In fact, one of his friends was an old cowboy named "Buckaroo". "Buckaroo" spent most of his time working at the local theater as an assist