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Rock Springs, Wyoming – 2006. This was the first place I ever spent the night with Elko. We had each had a loaded day. I had started out in Winnemucca. He had arrived from another dimension or another galaxy, possibly both. After all the trials of the day, we just wanted to hunker down and get to know each other. I had planned to sack out in the new boom town of Green River, Wyoming but due to said oil boom, every last motel room in town was booked. The one place I found that wasn’t booked not only wanted an exorbitant rate for their filthy room, but they would not allow dogs. The desk clerk looked out her dirty window, somehow saw through the tinted glass of my Toyota Tacoma’s cab and spotted Elko standing triumphantly on top of the ice chest, upon which she turned to me and said “We can’t take your little friend.” I asked her if she knew of any other places in town with rooms and she was kind enough space a second of her busy time and say “About 7 miles down the highway, there’s a place at the exit. Try them.” I could tell a long story about that first night and the kindly old woman who welcomed us at the Springs Motel, but I’ll do that some other time.
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