Hi, folks -

While you know I spent my time in the Map Division as an undergraduate,
that experience got me a volunteer spot to organize the incoming material
at the Cow Creek library to which I was introduced by Kathy during a field
trip to Death Valley when WAML met in Las Vegas in the mid-2000s.  But, the
consequence was that, when a ranger (who knew I was a geographer by
training) was asked by a visitor, "Where's the Mickey D's here in Death
Valley NP?  I can't find it in my GPS or on any maps," the ranger gave me a
ring and asked me to talk to the visitor who turned out to be a Berkeley
business school student.  When I asked what his question was and he told
me, I was forced to tell him that the nearest Mickey D's was 50 miles east
on US395 in Pahrump, NV, on the other side of the state line (because
that's where I had to go to answer my email each evening).  Then he wanted
to know how long it would take to get there (my answer:  at least an hour
because of the police looking for speeders and an hour back to your camping
spot).  I could hear a female voice in the background saying, "Honey, maybe
we should eat here."

The next day the apparent owner of the female voice delivered a note to the
ranger who passed it on to me.  It was a thank you note for my "excellent
help in getting" the business student to "forgoe a trip to Pahrump". She
also mentioned that they'd had an excellent pizza in the 49er Bar about 1/2
mile south of the Furnace Creek Visitor Center.  The first time I EVER
heard of a substitution of a noname pizza for a Big Mac and fries with a
soda on the side!

You never know who may need to be saved from themselves!

Congratulations to y'all on WAML's  50 Years Serving the West's Librarians.

virginia
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Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
Email:  [log in to unmask]
"There is always hope."
My fave:  http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.jpg
There's no place like:  34N 8' 25.38", 117W 58' 5.16"
if you can't be at:  48N 7' 4.54" 122W 45' 50.95"
The US Naval Academy is back to teaching celestial
navigation, again!  "Why?" you ask.  Because hackers
can't foul it up like they can GPS.
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