Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966
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After I got back from Europe in August 1964, the children and I returned to Norfolk to wait for the aircraft carrier to return to port. Then in...
The Indiana toll road was the first one with a posted minimum speed. The minimum never went higher than 40 mph across the country and no one ever...
We made it over Berthoud Pass (11,307 feet) without going lower than second gear or slower than 25 mph. There were a few "little old ladies" on...
Bob had to put 10 lb. of air in one of the tires this morning but he says he isn't worried because he let some out yesterday when they were hot...
Sacramento capitol building
We stopped to get gas outside San Francisco, and Bob tightened the generator belt which he said was loose, but he is...
We drove our new station wagon across to California to the house we had rented.
Bob washing the car and D washing her tricycle
The trip did not...
Balanced rock
D at Balanced Rock
Ship rock
Bob on Ship Rock
From Ship Rock - Uncle Harry's car
Great Uncle Leonard and Great Aunt Bertha...
At the end of the Christmas letter for 1966, my mother wrote
But earlier in the letter she talked about the trip in April, and said that Dad...
Day 2
The first place where I took any photos was when we stopped in Calico for the night. In 1881, the silver mining town of Calico was...
Day 3
When I map our trip on a modern map with Interstates, this is they way it comes out. But there were no interstates back then. I am pretty...
Day 4
From Kingman, we went up US 180 to the Grand Canyon National Park. We entered at the South Entrance.
Kingman to Grand Canyon - 170...
Day 5
We got up before dawn to take photos of the sunrise. It was really COLD. A lot of people warn about heat and dehydration. Because this is...
Day 6
Because this is such a long stretch with not much infrastructure on it (especially back then in the off-season), I originally thought we...
Day 7
After breakfast at the motel, we drove to Mesa Verde
Cortez to Mesa Verde - 10 miles
First view
Bob has finally gotten out his overcoat...
Day 8
As usual, we had breakfast, and left Durango (or where ever we spent the night)...
...and crossed Wolf Creek Pass...
Wolf Creek Pass...
The Great Sand Dunes is right across the Sangre de Cristo mountains from were my dad was brought up in the Wet Mountain Valley. But there's no...
From Brighton, we drove to Miami - For this part of the trip, I have few photos and no memory of exactly where we stopped each night. I think...
When we got to Miami we went to the house of my dad's former student, Dr. Joe Scott.
Car and Joe's boat from the pool
Bob and Dad looking at...