The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians lived in pueblos south of Colorado. I remember that after we left the Sand Dunes, we visited their home pueblo - I do not know what the connection was with our family. There is no genetic connection for sure, but when my father was working on Professor Wallin's cabin, the other instructor with him was an Indian.
In any case, the next photos I have are of pueblo dwellings which may have been in Taos.
Pueblo
Beehive oven
The next to last place we visited was Carlsbad Caverns. This is almost 500 miles south of Colorado. I'm sure the trip took a couple of days.
Carlsbad - buildings from parking lot
Me near the cavern wearing Girl Scout shorts - a camping uniform
We went to the cave at sundown in order observe the bats flying from the cave.
Moon Rise (or Set)
This was cool, but hard to photograph.
The next day we went into the caverns. Some of the formations were floodlit
Lighted formations
Stalactites
Cavern
Big dome in the main cavern
Sideways Waterfall
Carlsbad Emerald Pool
Some of them had names
Elk head
Same without flashlight
Now we were on our way home. Our next objective was St. Louis which was over 1000 miles from Carlsbad. We visited one of my dad's old girlfriends
Hazel and her husband - Dad's old girlfriend someplace in Oklahoma or Texas and I think we also stopped - maybe at Fort Sill to see some of the family that had adopted my grandfather. But I have no photos of them.I remember crossing the vast hot and boring expanses of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on the way to Missouri. Our parents were going to take us to the zoo. My sister wrote:
In the spring of 1946 or 1947 my parents left us with our maternal grandmother while they went to meetings in St. Louis. At that time, they discovered that in those days the St. Louis zoo had something like circus acts with the animals. So we stopped to go to the zoo.
Elephant act
Ponies ridden by monkeys
Lion act
The zoo was our last stop before home.
We had been gone several months. Now my dad had to be back for sudden new deadline at the University of Maryland Medical School where he taught. We had less than 48 hours to get from St Louis to Baltimore - over 900 miles without any interstates or limited access highways. I think we went back partly on the Pennsylvania Turnpike which was fairly new and we thought it would be faster than driving back on US 40 through the mountains of Western Maryland although it was a little longer.
My parents did the driving in shifts. My dad made the back seat into a level bed. One parent and one child would sleep while the other parent would drive with a child in the passenger seat beside him. The child's job was to read the map (how far to the next town, did we have to make a turn to stay on the correct highway) and talk to the driver to keep him or her awake. I directed my dad. My sister read the map for my mother. We did stop to eat and get gas (and go to the bathroom). We drove this way for over 20 hours. We did make it back in time.
In September, we went to Sears with our grandfather to get a store-bought dress for the new school year. We bought plaid dresses just alike. Here we are at Christmas 1948
In any case, the next photos I have are of pueblo dwellings which may have been in Taos.
Pueblo
Beehive oven
The next to last place we visited was Carlsbad Caverns. This is almost 500 miles south of Colorado. I'm sure the trip took a couple of days.
Carlsbad - buildings from parking lot
Me near the cavern wearing Girl Scout shorts - a camping uniform
We went to the cave at sundown in order observe the bats flying from the cave.
Moon Rise (or Set)
This was cool, but hard to photograph.
The next day we went into the caverns. Some of the formations were floodlit
Lighted formations
Stalactites
Cavern
Big dome in the main cavern
Sideways Waterfall
Carlsbad Emerald Pool
Some of them had names
Elk head
Same without flashlight
Now we were on our way home. Our next objective was St. Louis which was over 1000 miles from Carlsbad. We visited one of my dad's old girlfriends
Hazel and her husband - Dad's old girlfriend someplace in Oklahoma or Texas and I think we also stopped - maybe at Fort Sill to see some of the family that had adopted my grandfather. But I have no photos of them.I remember crossing the vast hot and boring expanses of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas on the way to Missouri. Our parents were going to take us to the zoo. My sister wrote:
In the spring of 1946 or 1947 my parents left us with our maternal grandmother while they went to meetings in St. Louis. At that time, they discovered that in those days the St. Louis zoo had something like circus acts with the animals. So we stopped to go to the zoo.
Elephant act
Ponies ridden by monkeys
Lion act
The zoo was our last stop before home.
We had been gone several months. Now my dad had to be back for sudden new deadline at the University of Maryland Medical School where he taught. We had less than 48 hours to get from St Louis to Baltimore - over 900 miles without any interstates or limited access highways. I think we went back partly on the Pennsylvania Turnpike which was fairly new and we thought it would be faster than driving back on US 40 through the mountains of Western Maryland although it was a little longer.
My parents did the driving in shifts. My dad made the back seat into a level bed. One parent and one child would sleep while the other parent would drive with a child in the passenger seat beside him. The child's job was to read the map (how far to the next town, did we have to make a turn to stay on the correct highway) and talk to the driver to keep him or her awake. I directed my dad. My sister read the map for my mother. We did stop to eat and get gas (and go to the bathroom). We drove this way for over 20 hours. We did make it back in time.
In September, we went to Sears with our grandfather to get a store-bought dress for the new school year. We bought plaid dresses just alike. Here we are at Christmas 1948
- Previous entry in the series 'Exploring the USA by Car': From the Uncompahgre Plateau to the Great Sand Dune Preserve in1948 - Ninth Post
