Red Lodge Montana

Monday, June 20, 2016
Red Lodge, Montana, United States
Today we met at 7:30 and went to the same diner for breakfast again. It was good and it stuck to your ribs. We headed to the North East entrance into the Park. We saw a couple of large herds of bison.
 
We stopped in Cooke City, MT for gas and lunch . It was a nice lunch, al fresco. Heading on we came to Beartooth Pass, this is a G1 road and it easily earned its reputation. The roads were curvy and the scenery great. Very popular with motorcycles. We arrived in Red Lodge, MT and went straight to a brewery, Prindy's, to refresh, get local information, and find a motel. With a motel reserved we headed over to it, the Yodeler Motel. It was over 100 years old. Dave and I shared a "small" room which was huge. Nick and Jeff shared the "snorers" room, that is what the owner/operator called it. He has owned the motel for only seven years but it was clean and very biker friendly. Each room had a steam shower. Rob and Dave tried it, separately of course, and enjoyed the muscle relaxing properties.

We went to dinner at a little bar, Natali's Front Bar, where our server was Ryan. He knew his beer and local information. The ceiling was covered with dollar bills. The ceiling was at least 15 feet high . We asked about the story. He said it was an old miners tradition. If you threw your dollar up to the ceiling with a tack and quarter and if it stuck and the quarter fell back and you caught it, free beer. So Ryan demonstrated. Fold the bill lengthwise and width-wise; stick a normal thumb tack in the intersecting folds; place a quarter on the back of the tack; fold the bill into a dart like formation; pick the emptiest spot; and underhandedly throw the bill to the ceiling; repeat until it sticks. Dave tried it, stuck it the first attempt, but the quarter did not come down. Nick tried it, he used a Tooney, Canada's currency, instead of a quarter. The first attempt the pointy end of the tack broke off. And second attempt stuck and so did the Tooney. Jeff tried it, first time unsuccessful, second time he stuck the bill and the quarter fell down. Rob was too cheap to try it. Several other patrons tried unsuccessfully.  

Dave and Jeff tried to calculate how much money was stuck on the ceiling. Dave guessed around $1600 and Jeff guessed around $1100. We asked Ryan and he said a mathematician friend tried to calculate it and came up the $2400. Ryan said they were not all $1 bills. There were several $100 bills, Chilean currency, Canadian currency, Mexican currency etc. A comment was made about what happens when the quarters actually gets free from the dollars and fall back down. A local bar customer said that one day a rather buxom lady showing a lot of cleavage just so happened to walk under just an occurrence and the quarter landed, well you get the picture. A great evening over all.


 
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