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 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 sierra 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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