Sunday, Day 8, July 6

Today is Sunday and we were able to spend time worshiping and serving in different ways. We attended the 8:30 service at Grace Church in Racine, Wisconsin this morning.  Then after the service we asked some people if we could serve in any way and so the good deed doers became greeters for the service at 10:00 a.m. All four of us left our inhibitions in Georgia a week ago so I doubt that Grace Church has ever had as enthusiastic greeters! I think Jimmy was the best greeter - he's a natural and has great technique.
Then we made it to Schaumberg, Illinois just in time for the 1:00 p.m. first pitch of the Frontier League game between the Schaumberg Boomers and the Normal Cornbelters. The Four Tenors (us) linked arms and belted out the National Anthem so loudly that we actually received applause. I've never been clapped for before when singing. Frontier League means the players are not much above high school level, but they have the same goals as any other minor leaguer. And the two or three hundred fans love their Boomers. We agreed to root for opposing teams, Danny and I had the Boomers and Pee Wee and Jimmy were to root for the Cornbelters. But when the Boomers went ahead 7-0 after three innings, Pee Wee and Jimmy switched teams and "GO BOOMERS!!" became their battle cry. Fickle fans yes, but our trip to the Boomer game was pure Americana and we loved it.
After four innings we made our exit and ended up at Wheaton College. Wheaton is where Jimmy's sons Jeremy and Joseph played their college football, so we visited the stadium for a while, but the main attraction was the Billy Graham Center. This awesome evangelist is still alive at 96 and the center does an amazing job of relating what an immense impact he has had all over the world.
Then Pee Wee and Jimmy took the interstate and Danny and I took the back roads to Watseka, Illinois where we're staying at a Super 8 (should be Below Average 8). The lady at the desk works two jobs and didn't have time for dinner. So good deed doer Pee Wee bought a dinner to go after eating tonight and now the lady is full and happy.
Speaking of Americana, that's all Danny and I saw during our two hour trip. Cornfields as far as you can see, farm houses with barns and silos, tiny white churches next to old cemeteries, and so on. We stopped at an area baseball complex that consisted of one field and was hosting a teenage girl softball game. There were men and boys in overalls or in jeans with no shirt. Dads in t-shirts umpired. Young mamas held their babies and threatened other children with a whoopin'.  Grandmas and grandpas sat in lawn chairs. With the sun setting we agreed that you can't get much more Americana than that.
That's it for Day Eight - one more full day tomorrow and then back home sometime Tuesday where we'll display our best greeting skills.

 

 

Day 7 - Saturday, July 5

The fireworks last night were real good for a while ... then some kind of technical difficulty occurred and it ended early. The thousands of people at the show on Lake Superior didn't get irate or even that upset. I guess Yoopers are a pretty patient people.
We started the morning off with a repeat good deed from another year. We stripped all the sheets in our hotel room and gathered all the towels and put them in a pile. Then we emptied the trash and took all the trash out. Next we emptied all of our loose change and placed it on the TV stand next to a good deed doers card. We hope the cleaning people appreciated a little less work from our room.
By 10:00 a.m. Central Time we were in Green Bay at Lambeau Field for a one hour stadium tour. We all loved it - we even got to walk out of the players' tunnel accompanied by the same music the players hear.
The next stop was what makes this trip so special sometimes. We stopped at Simon's Specialty Cheese Store in Kaukauna, Wisconsin because when in Wisconsin one must do something with cheese. Pee Wee had been in Wisconsin once as a child but none of us other three had ever been here. We stayed over an hour and before we had left I think we can say that we represented Georgia well. All the ladies giving free samples were nice and seemed to generally like the Georgia boys. It seemed like it was a good deed - we feel like we brought some good will and cheer to the workers and other customers. We had never met any of them before, but before we left we were all laughing together, trading numbers, taking photos, showing our good deed cards, etc. Several people we met heard about our journey and then eagerly gave us suggestions for things to do in Wisconsin. We tried way more than our fair share of free samples and the patient ladies kept providing. Cheddar, gouda, 7 year cheddar, spreads, pickled mushrooms, cheese fudge, caramel candy, more cheese, and more cheese - all this after a lunch at Moe's. None of us are feeling that great, but the visit was one of the best. This country is full of nice people and we found a bunch of them today at a cheese store in Wisconsin. This is why I started this journey six years ago with Pee Wee - visit places off the beaten path and meet strangers who don't stay strangers for long. Jan, Rob, Kittie Kat, and Ed certainly aren't strangers anymore.
We're staying in Milwaukee tonight - we made The Turn earlier today. The Turn is the point where we're headed back in the direction of Georgia. This trip has been as great as always but home always sounds great too. The selfie taken with Jimmy's long arm was taken at The Turn. I think you can figure out the others. Say Cheese!

Friday - Fourth of July

Dusk up here in the Upper Peninsula goes on until 10:00 p.m. and dawn begins around 5:30 - we're much closer to the north pole and days are longer right now. So we had a short night and then Danny and I began the new day with a chilly run with Lake Huron in our sights. We even ran on the runway for the small airport near our hotel - if we had gotten in trouble our alibi was going to be - it's a RUNway...
By 10:00 a.m. we were at Whitefish Point on the U.P. north shore on Lake Superior where we began with some rock skipping.  The Edmund Fitzgerald ship went down with 29 men in 1975 that prompted the song by Gordon Lightfoot. Hundreds of other ships sank to their watery graves before the Edmund, which gives the Whitefish Point area the name of The Graveyard of the Great Lakes. While there we met a tour guide who was very difficult to understand with her Yooper dialect, but we could understand enough to know that she was a little partial to Jimmy.
There are about 1500 residents in the area now but it dwindles to 300 in the winter months - the winters are just too harsh for non-Yoopers.
A little before noon we were at the lower Tahquamenon Water Falls and 30 minutes later we were at the upper falls of the same name. The lower falls were just a little more than some large rapids on major rivers, but the upper falls were majestic. Today was good because we saw more of God's creation - the sunrise photo taken by Jimmy, views of the Great Lakes, waterfalls, etc. Up to now we've had a great time but most of what we've seen has been manmade.
I bought a Yooper baseball hat with "You Betcha" on it, but will probably only wear it back home. These Yooper people are a very proud people and are a little different - I think most of them don't even include themselves as part of Michigan. You would think that they would be Detroit Lion fans, but they are all huge Green Bay Packer fans. The U.P. is connected to Wisconsin and is not connected to lower Michigan. We stopped at "Da Yooper Tourist Trap" in Ishpeming, Michigan and they even had an exhibit paying homage to St. Vincent of Lombardi with a small area of turf from Lambeau Field. The tourist trap has some bizarre exhibits - I'll add one to show what I mean.
Danny and I were together today and Pee Wee and Jimmy rode together. We've pretty much driven together for most of the trip - our original plan of separating went out the window when we saw we were having much more fun staying together. But we got separated today and that was a good thing for the Jimmy and Pee Wee car. They stumbled on a July 4th treat in Munising, Michigan - hundreds of people came out for the Fire Department water fights. They turn on their hoses full blast and try to knock each other over. Then they turn the hoses on the crowd. Jimmy and Pee Wee noticed that the trash cans were overflowing so the good deed doers found empty trash bags and with the help of some children went around and did a Georgia good deed clean up. They met a lot of people and received a lot of thanks.
We're not done looking for good deeds today - I'm writing this early because we're driving 15 miles to Marquette, Michigan for a fireworks display over Lake Superior. This is going to be a very late night - they have to wait for total darkness like anywhere else but that won't happen here until close to 11:30! So the finish to this day's blog will have to come sometime tomorrow.
 But "you betcha" I'll finish it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Five - Thursday

We started with a two hour drive to Mackinaw City, Michigan where we took a ferry to Mackinac Island. I tasted the MOAD hot dog again as I experienced a little sea sickness on the 15 minute ferry ride. But the people we met on the boat ride made things more pleasant and helped us with things to do when we arrived. You can see them in the picture.
Mackinac Island pretty much took up most of our day, but it's another part of our American history lesson we can check off. It's the last part of Michigan before the state's upper peninsula.
Things learned: It's almost chilly up here - highs are in the 65 degree range. There are two Great Lakes that can be seen from the area - Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, which was pretty amazing considering most of us had never seen either one. The bridge from the main part of Michigan to the upper peninsula is 5 miles - one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. People from Michigan are called Michiganders and those on the UP (upper peninsula) are called UPers or Yoopers. Mackinac Island is a great place to visit. No cars on the island - the most common forms of transportation are bicycling, horse back riding, and walking. You would think it would be safe with no cars, but it's common to see accidents from bicycle wrecks. LOTS of money on the island. Houses usually selling for several million dollars. The Grand Hotel is too grand for us -it's huge, it's famous, those attending dinner must wear formal evening gowns and suit and tie ... not for us.
We took a carriage ride with several other tourists and learned a lot of the history of the island. Things like the John Jacob Aster Fur Trading Company being started there. We also learned to not sit near the front of the carriage due to severe gaseous emissions from the horses. Memories of Rusty from Seinfeld came floating back.
We stayed until about 6:00 and finished with a second rousing rendition of Amazing Grace at the Little Stone Church - it's a little over 100 years old and is a little stone church. This time all four tenors rocked the house.
We're staying in St. Ignace just barely into the upper peninsula. So we're Yoopers. We went from a five star room last night to a one star tonight. I can't even remember the name of the hotel. Plus we had to change rooms. The manager gave us the honeymoon suite. One king sized bed next to a heart shaped tub with mirrors all around. This actually happened to Pee Wee and me during our first journey, but why she would think FOUR men wanted the honeymoon suite is beyond me. We had fun taking a couple pictures before switching.
Jimmy was the only one to carry out a good deed today. With horses being constant travelers on the streets of Mackinac Island, horse poop is a common sight, and horse poop sweeper men are employed. Showing that he isn't beyond serving in any manor, Jimmy held the shovel for the pooper sweeper for a while so he had a place to sweep the horse poop.
That's it for today - these Yoopers are heading deep into the Michigan UP tomorrow. We're getting a little fatigued now. You know ... that heart shaped tub would have hit the spot.

 

 

Day Four - July 2

Danny started us up with a great good deed before we even left the hotel in Kent, Ohio. While eating breakfast he struck up a conversation with an 8 year old boy with cerebral palsy and his mother. The boy loves professional wrestling and even though our style of wrestling is about as opposite as can be, Danny went to his suitcase and found an FCA wrestling shirt to give to the boy. The boy's face lit up and the mother's did as well - she really liked seeing the big smile on her son's face. Good one Danny.
I thought Danny was worthy of a major award, so we journeyed to Cleveland and found the house that made "major award" a common phrase among old Christmas film fans. The house from "A Christmas Story" is a museum now and is a big time tourist attraction. They get 2500 visitors per day during the Christmas season and there is a 2 and a half hour wait to get in the house for the tour during that time of year. It wasn't that crowded today so nobody put my eye out with a Red Ryder BB Gun while trying to get in front of us. You can see the leg lamp in the window if you look closely, but ... you should see it from the street!
Next came President Rutherford B. Hayes mansion and museum in Fremont, Ohio. Not the most exciting stop we've had but we learned a few things here and there and I took a pretty good photo of my three buddies pointing at the entrance sign.
Then to Toledo, Ohio and to carry out a suggestion from my sister Kathy. First though I took a picture of the Toledo Mudhen's Minor League stadium. Then Kathy's suggestion. She thought we would enjoy "Tony Packo's" restaurant and she was right. For M*A*S*H* fans you might remember that Corporal Klinger - played by Jamie Farr often talked about Tony Packo's Restaurant back home in Toledo. So now the restaurant is famous and has been visited by hundreds of stars and other well known people. The walls are adorned with hot dog buns in cases that have been autographed by various stars. But the real treat at Tony Packo's is the chili dogs. Jimmy and Pee Wee got the special - two chili dogs and a side dish. Danny and I went for the Hail Mary and tackled the M.O.A.D. This stands for Mother of All Dogs and I can see why. It's a full foot long hot dog but the meat isn't your normal hot dog. It's sausage and it's three times as thick. Then throw in peppers, cheese, and copious amounts of rot gut chili and there it is. And eight hours later, there it still is. I had to finish it because Pee Wee bet me that I couldn't do it. The first 90% of the giant hot dog went pretty well, then I hit the wall. I made it through the remaining 10 percent, but I paid dearly for my victorious bet over the next couple of hours. Danny was driving and he knew to be on alert to pull over at any moment. At 10:30 p.m. I'm still suffering a little. Danny has fared better then me - he's out eating with the other two, but I'm thinking about never eating again until sometime next week. I feel like someone let Chicken Man loose in my bowels. So yes, I won the bet from Pee Wee, but I think he won the war.
At 4:00 p.m. we entered the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor and walked around the outside of the stadium and got a few pictures. Then at 8:00 p.m. we were near Lansing and did the same thing at the Michigan State stadium. This time we walked through a construction gate and were just about to walk in the stadium when we were stopped by some kind of official. We put our tails between our legs and headed to the Staybridge Suites in Okemos where we're spending the night.
In between the two stadiums Danny and I carried out a better than average good deed. We saw a Salvation Army Store, pulled in, walked around a while and looked for an opportunity to help. We saw a lady with three young girls purchase a table and chair. When she walked out to pull her mini van up we didn't give her a chance. We carried the table and chair to her mini van in the parking lot, loaded them up, gave her two good deed doer cards, asked her to pay it forward, and then went on our way.
Pee Wee got us a room at these Staybridge Suites through Priceline for under $80, but when we checked in it was a room with only one queen bed. For some reason the lady at the front desk liked us - maybe she heard about Jimmy's recent induction in the Football Hall of Fame, I don't know, but she upgraded us to a $400 suite. We thought about just staying here for 5 more days and making up stories for the blog, but that would be a bad deed.
Tomorrow we're probably heading up north until we run out of America. Tonight I'm probably not sleeping until I run out of chili. Good night.

 

 

 

 

Day Three - July 1

This morning Pee Wee and Danny drove up from Cincinnati and Jimmy and I drove on more Ohio scenic routes. Jimmy and I really enjoyed seeing the tidy little Ohio towns and different landscapes than what we're used to seeing. It may be boring to some, but this was one of the purposes of the trip - to get out and see the heart of America and we really liked it. We stopped in a couple of towns, read a little history here and there, stopped at the Tri Valley High School football stadium (a lot of the high schools have artificial turf around here). We meandered and explored until we rendezvoused with our other travelling companions in Charm, Ohio in the middle of Amish territory.
We visited the Keim Lumber Company - kind of famous for its Amish made furniture. It had hundreds of types of lumber from hundreds of types of trees. Coffee table tops ranged from $400 to over $5000. We left empty handed.
We ate at Grandma's in Charm - Danny was amazed by the Amish servers - their simple appearance, their bonnets, their dialect, so he talked one of them into a group picture. It is pretty amazing to see the happy Amish people immersed in their daily life - so much different than ours - horse and buggies, untrimmed beards, etc.
From there it was time to get to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Pee Wee and I visited the baseball version in Cooperstown three years ago and we enjoyed this one just as much. We even managed to get my favorite football coach inducted today. Yes - Jimmy Chupp is now in the Football Hall of Fame. I wrote his name on a small piece of paper and was barely able to slide it between an exhibit and the wall in an area where it will never be found. So Jimmy Football is now in the Football Hall of Fame. Congratulations Jimmy - Johnny Football has nothing on you.
From Canton we drove 30 minutes to Kent, Ohio and found our way to the May 4 Memorial. At Kent State on May 4, 1970, four students were killed and nine others wounded by the Ohio National Guard while they were protesting the Viet Nam War. I remember the incident very well - hundreds of colleges and high schools across the nation protested with "sit-ins" over the next few days. I can vaguely remember being a part of that at McCluer High School my junior year. The Memorial is very well done and interesting to follow and to read about. But like other places we've visited - Columbine, VA Tech, and Aurora, Colorado, it also just plain sad.
Good deeds were hard to come by today - we tried and we asked but good deed doing was slow. We handed out another water bottle to a "Slow - Go" sign guy at a construction site. He had the Go side out when he should have had the Slow, and he had the Slow side out when he should have had the Go, but we still felt he was deserving of a good deed water bottle so he received one along with a Good Deed Doers card.
We're staying the night in a Comfort Inn in Kent. I'm working on the blog while my three buddies are playing in the pool, as if they were eight year-olds. There's a water slide and other things for kids. I think I'll end this for tonight ... so I can get in the pool, like an eight year old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Two, June 30

Chris Alston wins the t-shirt with his answer of a calf weaner. Some people may cry foul - he's married to a vet, but I say he wins. The quiz question for the day: what is the crop Jimmy is looking at?

By 10:00 a.m. we were in Lexington, Kentucky - home of famous horses and horse farms. One of the famous horses is immortalized with street names and such - you'll see a photo. While in Lexington we played 18 holes of Mini Bible Golf. They have three courses - Old Testament, New Testament, and Miracles. We played the Old Testament course - total score of Pee Wee and Danny vs. Jimmy and me. They should have played the Miracle course because Danny and Pee Wee would have needed one to beat us. But they did beat us on table hockey afterwards.
Then we kind of floundered in our travels. We tried Ashland and the Henry Clay Estate - closed on Mondays. Then to the Daniel Boone Station historic site. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Then lunch in Lexington where Pee Wee lost his keys (Danny found them in the restaurant after about 20 minutes of searching).
But finally we struck it rich at the Cane Ridge Meeting House. The famous preacher Barton Stone founded the church in the late 1790s - it branched off a few times to the Christian Church and then the Church of Christ. The meeting house was famous for the Cane Ridge Revival in 1801 where close to 20,000 Kentuckians attended which served as a springboard for the Christian church.
Betty was our tour guide - a lovely lady in her eighties who loves this blue grass area of Kentucky.
Betty made one mistake though - she left the four of us alone in the old church. Pee Wee led us in a fire and brimstone sermon and then we lifted the rafters with our rendition of Amazing Grace.
After the Cane Ridge House we tried the Blue Licks, Kentucky battlefield - one of the states last conflicts with Indians ... closed on Mondays. Then we split up - Pee Wee and Danny wanted to visit Cincinnati and Jimmy and I wanted to stay away from big cities and experience more of this region's back roads. And we're glad we did - we saw some beautiful Ohio countryside. We're spending the night in Lancaster, Ohio while those two are in Cincinnati. We plan to meet sometime tomorrow - possibly in Canton, OH at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
My buddy Dan Lukacs said we have to eat at a Big Boy Restaurant while in Ohio, so we complied. The Baymont Inn manager where we're staying suggested a milk shake for dessert - she said she loves them. So after our meal we surprised her with a chocolate shake and two good deed doers cards. Her face lit up - she's a very nice lady with a kind face and a great smile that got bigger and bigger. We asked her to use the second card to do a good deed of her own - I bet she does. Earlier we had given a very hot construction worker a water bottle - you can see Jimmy leaning out the window to hand it to him.
Danny called me from Cincinnati tonight with a good deed by Pee Wee. They were waiting outside a restaurant near some girls and of course Pee Wee struck up a conversation. The girl had started on her degree in education but is going through a down period in her life. Pee Wee spent over 30 minutes talking with her, counseling her and encouraging her, and now she actually has a better outlook.
So three good deeds today on a day that fell short of yesterday's experiences.
At least I can go to sleep with an off key performance of Amazing Grace ringing in my ears. Oh, and take a look at the town name we came across in rural southern Ohio - try not to hurt yourself when saying it.

Day One - Sunday, June 29

Our plan was to go our separate ways when hitting the Tennessee border but we were having so much fun that we ended up following each other and staying together all day. We'll see about future days later - maybe we'll split up, maybe we won't - it's great to have no real plans for these trips.
Our first stop was in Oak Ridge, Tennessee - not to see the famous "Boys" but to visit the Museum of Science and Energy where the Manhattan Project took place. (You'll see a picture from the sign in registry from 1963 - see if you see a familiar name). This is where all the plutonium and U-235 isotopes were worked on in the "Secret City" to make the Atomic Bomb that ended WWII.
We enjoyed the history of the place, but we felt much dumber upon leaving after viewing way too many exhibits with way too many seven or eight syllable scientific terms. Our favorite parts were the hands on kids activities, at least until we realized we were struggling to decipher them as well.
Our next stop was the Lenoir Museum near Norris Dam not too far from Oak Ridge. We also made the drive to Norris Dam for some Dam pictures. This dam was made in the 1930s and brought electricity to what was at that time a very primitive part of our country. Before our Dam trip we had our highlight of the day at the Lenoir Museum.
The small museum has hundreds of artifacts from Appalachia. One of them is in a photo - the first person who can tell me what it was used for will receive a t-shirt from one of the places we visit over the next week. But the highlight was the Blue Grass concert going on in the building the entire time we were there. Every Sunday "pickers" show up and play their banjos and guitars and play and sing the most country blue grass music you'll ever hear. We even heard "Chicken Man." He's a skinny old guy with a distinctive voice ranging from base to falsetto. He's been on the Jay Leno show a couple of times and won a national blue grass singers contest. His trademark song I tried to attach to this blog - I'm not great at this so I'm not sure if you'll see it. I hope it works because it's bizarre. I asked him if I could buy a CD from him and he walked with me out to his car where I bought his last one. I'll leave it in the car for GiGi - she'll love it.
We left Chicken Man and ended up in Corbin, Kentucky, where we ate at the first ever Colonel Sanders KFC. There's a little museum as part of the restaurant. It's amazing the places you bump into if you just start wandering.

 

We're spending our first night here - a good day of exploring has ended that also produced three good deeds. First - at an exit somewhere in Tennessee we saw a man holding a sign at the end of the exit ramp. It said he had just gotten out of a VA hospital and was trying to come up with rent money for his family. After a decent donation from the Good Deed Doers as well as a sandwich, we hope his outlook is a little brighter. Then at the viewing area at Norris Dam, we saw a landscape area that was riddled with weeds. But not anymore - we good deeders got rid of the Dam weeds. Then while I've been writing this blog at 9:00 p.m. my three buddies went to the Walmart and K Mart parking lots and helped the cart guys with what they say were over 100 shopping carts. I say they exaggerate, they say no. Still a good deed, exaggeration or not.

So Day one is over - I swear I see some green and yellow in Pee Wee's beard and Jimmy Football's hair, and Danny's ears seem to be growing. Maybe the trip to the Oak Ridge nuclear facility wasn't a good idea after all.

 

 

 

 

Trip #6 - Travels with Pee Wee and ...

We're leaving tomorrow morning, June 29 on our 6th random journey to parts unknown in our country. But this year it's not just Pee Wee and me. Our friend Adam Pitt has been dealing with brain cancer, and after he asked if he could come and then we included him, we thought it might be good to add others. So we invited Jimmy Chupp - a longtime football coach at GAC, Danny Sinnott - the new head wrestling coach at my old stomping grounds - Collins Hill, and Rich Schumacher - one of my former assistants who is now the head wrestling coach at Meadowcreek. All three were gung ho about coming, so we thought we would be going in two cars of three, but due to some last minute health issues, it will be two cars of two. Adam isn't able to come due to treatment he's undergoing, and Schu (Rich) is in the hospital recovering from complications related to diabetes. We'll miss those two and will continue to pray for their recoveries.

We plan to leave from Atlanta and head north in two cars. Danny will start with me and Jimmy will ride with Pee Wee. We will go our separate random ways and then rendezvous every two or three days, compare videos of places seen, people met, and good deeds carried out. Then we'll switch the people around so that Pee Wee's odors won't cause bad side effects. We haven't toured areas like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of Pennsylvannia, Indiana, and Illinois, so we might wander in those directions.

The trip is once again a fundraiser for a very worthy ministry in Lawrenceville that helps people in need with emergency food, medicine, and utility assistance. Anyone who would like to donate any dollar amount per good deed we carry out (we have a goal of three per day), please send a check to:

Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry, Inc.

176 Church Street

Lawrenceville, GA 30046

 

Even if you can't donate, please follow our blog and post some comments. We like comments. Time for bed - day 1 of season #6 starts at 7:00 a.m.

Summary - Trip #5

     We're back home in Georgia - got up around 4:00 a.m. in Denver to make our early morning flight. We may have seen more hot spots in our country and visited more places than in any of our previous four years. And we did OK with the good deeds - they are listed below. Remember - anyone wanting to donate to the Lawrenceville Co-op as support for our trip - please contact me and I'll let you know what you need to do. Thanks for following us!

Deed #1: Rounded up a few grocery carts at grocery store in Denver.
#2: Drove two hikers down Mt. Evans in Colorado.
#3: Helped woman with packages at Wells Fargo Bank in Jankson, Wyoming.
#4: Wrote note of appreciation and left $5 for concession worker at Bates Hotel who was verbally abused by owner.
#5: Helped elderly woman at Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming.
#6: Helped woman in wheelchair in Cody Theater.
#7: Pee Wee goes out of his way to thank and compliment the Ranger at Little Big Horn in Montana.
#8: Fed homeles woman in Butte, Montana.
#9: Brought dessert to unhappy hotel front desk clerk in Idaho Falls, Idaho.  
#10: Cleaned up grout abouve urinal in bathroom at Deadhorse Point in Utah.
#11: Helped Belgian struggling with heat exhaustion at the Arches National Park.
#12: Left refreshments for next guest in hotel in Price, Utah.
#13: Pruned trees for Aspen City worker struggling with ladder.