My mom did not like to fly. She drove or took a train or a ship for all the trips she made - with two exceptions. She flew for the first time when my Dad was going to Florida and one of his students (Joe) and Joe's wife Clyde Lee were also going to be flying to Florida at the same time. She agreed to fly on a flight with Clyde Lee while my dad flew on a separate flight with Joe. That way unless both planes crashed, my sister and I would still have one parent.
The second time was when she had an automobile accident in Germany and was on crutches - she thought crutches on a ship would be a problem. She said flying was like a bus trip without the scenery.
In October 1974 she had a chance to visit Australia with the American Iris Society- it would be their spring and their iris would be in bloom. But she would have to fly. She said if I would let D - my oldest daughter go with her that she would not back out. And D's teachers (she was in 8th grade-age 13) said for her to go. So Mother and D went to Australia, New Zealand, andTahiti
1974_tour_group_Australia My daughter is in dark blue on the left standing behind my mother next to a lady in orange
Grandmother_taking_my_picture_with_youth_members_Australia
In 1975, we all went to Williamsburg at Thanksgiving
Me and my 4 children in the stocks on the left, my sister, her husband and her three children on the right
But my mother was so sad remembering my dad's death that she said she was never going to be home in October again.
My brother-in-law refused to let his children miss school in October,
So two years later in 1976, the second daughter B went to Europe (also age 13 in the 8th grade)
My_grandmothers_photo_of_me_in_1976_Berlin
They went to Germany, Austria, and France and the took a tour of the UK - Scotland, England andWales.
The third daughter E went to China with a medical group
and then Japan in 1979 when she was in 6th grade (age 11 -a little young)
She also went to Hong Kong and Taiwan and came back via Hawaii
She took my sister's younger daughter (my niece age 13) to Italy and my son (age 12) to Kenya in 1983. She came back from Kenya with broken ribs -she stood up through the hatch of a safari vehicle. It started off with a lurch and she fell onto the side of the hatch. She refused to go to the hospital - she said "You can't do anything for broken ribs".
My son's photo from Kenya -one of the few I can find from his trip
She found that the best time to travel was when the children were in 7th or 8th grade (age 12-14). She traveled with my older niece after the niece graduated from college and that did not go well at all. She was still traveling when her oldest great grandchild was of an age to go - she took him to Philadelphia in the summer when he was 12 and she was 83. But the heat was hard for her at that age, so the next oldest great grandchild, she just paid for her to go to camp.
She died in April 2006, so I decided to take the the money I inherited from her and do for my grandchildren what she did for my children. Of my 10 living grandchildren, two were much older (age 26 and age 24) and the oldest one had been on a trip with my mother when he was 12
The second time was when she had an automobile accident in Germany and was on crutches - she thought crutches on a ship would be a problem. She said flying was like a bus trip without the scenery.
In October 1974 she had a chance to visit Australia with the American Iris Society- it would be their spring and their iris would be in bloom. But she would have to fly. She said if I would let D - my oldest daughter go with her that she would not back out. And D's teachers (she was in 8th grade-age 13) said for her to go. So Mother and D went to Australia, New Zealand, andTahiti
1974_tour_group_Australia My daughter is in dark blue on the left standing behind my mother next to a lady in orange
Grandmother_taking_my_picture_with_youth_members_Australia
In 1975, we all went to Williamsburg at Thanksgiving
Me and my 4 children in the stocks on the left, my sister, her husband and her three children on the right
But my mother was so sad remembering my dad's death that she said she was never going to be home in October again.
My brother-in-law refused to let his children miss school in October,
So two years later in 1976, the second daughter B went to Europe (also age 13 in the 8th grade)
My_grandmothers_photo_of_me_in_1976_Berlin
They went to Germany, Austria, and France and the took a tour of the UK - Scotland, England andWales.
The third daughter E went to China with a medical group
and then Japan in 1979 when she was in 6th grade (age 11 -a little young)
She also went to Hong Kong and Taiwan and came back via Hawaii
She took my sister's younger daughter (my niece age 13) to Italy and my son (age 12) to Kenya in 1983. She came back from Kenya with broken ribs -she stood up through the hatch of a safari vehicle. It started off with a lurch and she fell onto the side of the hatch. She refused to go to the hospital - she said "You can't do anything for broken ribs".
My son's photo from Kenya -one of the few I can find from his trip
She found that the best time to travel was when the children were in 7th or 8th grade (age 12-14). She traveled with my older niece after the niece graduated from college and that did not go well at all. She was still traveling when her oldest great grandchild was of an age to go - she took him to Philadelphia in the summer when he was 12 and she was 83. But the heat was hard for her at that age, so the next oldest great grandchild, she just paid for her to go to camp.
She died in April 2006, so I decided to take the the money I inherited from her and do for my grandchildren what she did for my children. Of my 10 living grandchildren, two were much older (age 26 and age 24) and the oldest one had been on a trip with my mother when he was 12
