When I was a kid, I'd ride in my grandparents' old Jeep on the long drive up to their summer cabin in the mountains.

When I was a kid, I'd ride in my grandparents' old Jeep on the long drive up to their summer cabin in the mountains. We'd always stop for ice cream at a little place in Evanston, Wyoming called the Dew Drop Inn. I always asked for a Black Raspberry milkshake, because the flavor sounded so exotic ... and they tasted wonderful.

This afternoon I finished up a long, hot day of fieldwork outside of Red Lodge, Montana, and I decided to celebrate with a milkshake at the little drive inn there. They had black raspberry, and it was almost as good as I remembered.

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  1. Erica BrownSeptember 28, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    How wonderful that it was still there. I'm sure you got photos!

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  2. Mark HufstetlerSeptember 28, 2011 at 7:52 AM

    Oh, yesterday's drive-inn is a totally different place, hundreds of miles from the one I stopped at as a kid. (That place is long gone.) Only the exotic black raspberry flavor still remains ...

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  3. Nick BellSeptember 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    black raspberry does sound exotic

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  4. Angharod Brown-BairSeptember 28, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    Wonderful memories simmer in mysterious places.

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  5. Erica BrownSeptember 28, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    Typical me, so distracted by the milkshake that I overlooked the geography!

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  6. Scott MurdockOctober 4, 2011 at 9:00 PM

    I hereby declare "wanderful memories" to be a new and official phrase.

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  7. Angharod Brown-BairOctober 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM

    approving the declaration...*S*

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