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
Linares. That
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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