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ulously, without any aches and
pains in my back? That I floated
around the town all day like a he-
lium balloon?
The Dillon Tribune-Examiner
would sum up The Andrus Hotel
as "arguably the single most am-
bitious, grandest, classiest build-
ing project in the 125-year history
of the town."
We, our kids, and especially my
back, all agree with that assess-
ment.
Setting out from the
Andrus, we found many
interesting, fun, and fam-
ily-friendly things to do
within walking distance.
We bought Monopoly
at The Tabletop Vault,
a game store in down-
town Dillon, and talked
with Asa, the owner,
who was able to recom-
mend some other great
games for our kids. We
ate at Papa T's, a great
old-fashioned bar and
burger joint with a bank of arcade ma-
chines for the kids and an ice-cold beer for
the grown-ups. We checked out the impres-
sive Beaverhead County Museum. We tried
on hats and boots at Atomic 79, which has
an amazing neon sign that is almost worth
the trip to Dillon right there.
We also found Asian Mix just around
the block from the Andrus. Asian Mix is
so delicious, warm, and friendly that we
ate there two nights in a row. The own-
er, Mi Keh, talked to our children for ten
minutes. A mother of five herself, she
assured my hungry six-year-old that his
boba tea was coming and winked at him
when we chided him for his impatience.
She gave us a handful of extra fortune
cookies, which we opened and ate that night back at the ho-
tel, and she even took a picture of us for her wall of customers.
We would have found this charming enough, but then she
served us some of the best curry, General Tso's chicken, and
coconut chicken noodle soup we'd ever had. The mango sticky
rice? Don't even get me started. The Myanmar Red Curry Beef?
Incomparable. Dillon is a very lucky town.
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