For terminally ill woman, a special red bus ride
Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 5 months AGO
<p>Rhonda Hendricks looks out at the Logan Pass Visitor Center from the Red Bus that carried her and her family up Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road when it opened for the season on July 2. Photo by Brenda Ahearn / Daily Inter Lake</p>
After some 11th-hour organizing efforts, a woman with a terminal illness was allowed to ride a historic Red Bus on July 2 that led the way to Glacier National Park’s Logan Pass on Going-to-the-Sun Road.
Rhonda Hendricks and her husband, Doug, and others aboard the Red Bus were escorted by a Park patrol car with lights on to the road gate at Avalanche Creek, which opened at 8:15 p.m. The bus then led a line of vehicles to Logan Pass.
Doug Hendricks commented that it was wonderful to see his wife so grateful that she became tearful.
The opening of the road to vehicles came on short notice, with park officials announcing it at around 4:30 p.m.
The special trip for the couple was organized by park officials, Kalispell Regional Medical Center staff and Xanterra’s Glacier National Park Lodges.
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