Straight Across the Middle - Colorado to California in 1964 part 2

This entry is in the series Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966
Balanced rock

D at Balanced Rock

D at Balanced Rock

Ship rock

Ship rock

Bob on Ship Rock

Bob on Ship Rock

From Ship Rock - Uncle Harry's car

From Ship Rock - Uncle Harry's car

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Great Uncle Leonard and Great Aunt Bertha

From here on the trip went better.
Road

Road

Road beside the mountains

Road beside the mountains

Mountains across the snow

Mountains across the snow

Buttes

Buttes

Snowy road

Snowy road

Bob and the kids at Loveland Pass 11,988 ft

Bob and the kids at Loveland Pass 11,988 ft

Battle Mountain in the fog

Battle Mountain in the fog

Mountain top above the fog

Mountain top above the fog

We stopped in Reno, and Bob and I attended a Robert Goulah show. I was disappointed in the amount of profanity in the show - he was sanitized for TV.

Our decorated front door for Christmas

Our decorated front door for Christmas

Aunt Alice had given us a packed lunch which lasted us for several days and included some fruit. The kids would eat the food and sometimes some of it would end up down on the floor. When we crossed the border into California, we had to go through an agriculture inspection. When they got to our car they could smell the apple cores, so we had to give them all the rest of the fruit.

We got to Monterey and moved into the house we had rented in time to celebrate Christmas there.
Charlie Brown Xmas tree

Charlie Brown Xmas tree

Built in wall oven and my refrigerator

Built in wall oven and my refrigerator

Stove top from the dining room - my bird plates on the back of the cabinet

Stove top from the dining room - my bird plates on the back of the cabinet

Ford station wagon on left.  Our stove left of door (covered since kitchen had built in oven and cooktop).  Washer and my grandfather's old gas  dryer on right

Ford station wagon on left. Our stove left of door (covered since kitchen had built in oven and cooktop). Washer and my grandfather's old gas dryer on right

Behind our house were some sheep

Behind our house were some sheep

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Ice plant on the hill at the back of our back yard and sheep

Between January 1965 and October 1966 Bob attended US Navy Post Graduate School and we toured California from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Next entry in the series 'Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966': Taking the Southern Route- Monterey to Key West in 1966 - post 1 - Packing up and Leaving Monterey
Previous entry in the series 'Driving Coast to Coast - Three Cross Country Trips 1964-1966': Straight Across the Middle in 1964- Winter Difficulties driving Norfolk to Denver - part 1

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