Friday, October 3, 2014

An Airman's Travels

The International Bridge connecting Laredo and Nuevo Laredo was swept away.

June 24, 1954

As a result of the above incident Airman 1st Class Paul (Bud) Hunter, age 20,  was forced to find an alternate bus route from San Antonio, Texas to Monterey, Mexico on July 1st. He was on his way to marry the love of his young life, Scarlet (Nena) Lackner.
Trailways Bus company offered transportation to McAllen, Texas a border town across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico.



In the middle of the night Bud arrived at Reynosa and after a scary incident at the Mexican border station he bought a ticket to Monterey on a Transportes Del Norte bus.
He arrived in Monterey the next morning and, following his fiancé's directions, took a taxi to “en frente de country club” at the base of the Siera de la Cilla. [saddle mountain]
 


After spending a day and night at the Lackner home in Monterey, Nena and Bud took a bus 60 miles south to the  Lackner farmstead near LinaresThat night was spent sleeping under the stars after dining on fried rabbit and avocado sandwiches. Bud remembers thinking., how did  I get from a farm near Mechanicsburg, Ohio to this place?


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