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 had worked on the schedule changes all summer.
Gross Anatomy
That 1966 visit to Schreiner's gardens led eventually down the road to my mother having over 300 different named cultivars of iris in her garden, becoming an iris judge and having an iris named for her
A TINY part of mother's garden in 2006
They came down from Portland by train, and we picked them up at the Fort Ord station. If I did not have these photos, I would not have known that there was a railroad station on the Fort. Fort Ord no longer exists - not sure about the railroad station.
Bob with their luggage at the Fort Ord station
BB and D with their luggage
Dad's photo of us at the station. I think Bob has a camera case. D and BB are wearing dresses bought in Europe (there are kittens embroidered on the front) and I have on a sweater I knitted
Luggage (and Dad) in the back of the VW
Road out of the RR station. The sign to the right of the stop sign points to the Post Sludge Plant
Mother and Dad went with me to Bob's graduation
Monterey Post Graduate School
Bob is the one with the tree growing out of his head
After consultation with my parents, we shipped the third car (a 1932 Plymouth) by rail from San Francisco to Miami - it will be picked up by Dr. Joe Scott, one of Dad's former students and held for us until we get there.
Bob with the rental truck and trailer leaving for San Francisco
After his graduation, Mother and Dad took the children off for an outing in Carmel while the movers packed everything up. Then we cleaned the house to turn it back to the landlady. Bob had to paint one wall of the kid's room where BB had drawn on it with non-washable purple crayon.
Mother washing the windows of the house we were leaving
Mother taking a photo through a keyhole in the fence
Of Dad who had fallen asleep on the other side of the fence
Dad waked up
We were driving two cars. Bob was driving a 1932 Plymouth which he didn't push to go much faster than 40 mph. My dad was riding shotgun.
The 1932 Plymouth getting gas
I was driving a VW bus, with my mother to help with our two children, age 5 and age 3.
Children asleep in the VW
We had walkie talkies to communicate from one car to the other.
When we travel, we try to have something for the kids to do every day. We start with an early breakfast, stop for gas about 10, eat a quick lunch someplace, stop for gas about 2 and then stop about 4 at a motel with a pool or where there was something interesting for the kids to do.
BB picking cotton
We were taking the southern route, so we drove down through central California. We probably did not get away early on the first day and probably stopped the first night in Paso Robles or Bakersfield.
But earlier in the letter she talked about the trip in April, and said that Dad had worked on the schedule changes all summer.
Gross Anatomy
That 1966 visit to Schreiner's gardens led eventually down the road to my mother having over 300 different named cultivars of iris in her garden, becoming an iris judge and having an iris named for her
A TINY part of mother's garden in 2006
They came down from Portland by train, and we picked them up at the Fort Ord station. If I did not have these photos, I would not have known that there was a railroad station on the Fort. Fort Ord no longer exists - not sure about the railroad station.
Bob with their luggage at the Fort Ord station
BB and D with their luggage
Dad's photo of us at the station. I think Bob has a camera case. D and BB are wearing dresses bought in Europe (there are kittens embroidered on the front) and I have on a sweater I knitted
Luggage (and Dad) in the back of the VW
Road out of the RR station. The sign to the right of the stop sign points to the Post Sludge Plant
Mother and Dad went with me to Bob's graduation
Monterey Post Graduate School
Bob is the one with the tree growing out of his head
After consultation with my parents, we shipped the third car (a 1932 Plymouth) by rail from San Francisco to Miami - it will be picked up by Dr. Joe Scott, one of Dad's former students and held for us until we get there.
Bob with the rental truck and trailer leaving for San Francisco
After his graduation, Mother and Dad took the children off for an outing in Carmel while the movers packed everything up. Then we cleaned the house to turn it back to the landlady. Bob had to paint one wall of the kid's room where BB had drawn on it with non-washable purple crayon.
Mother washing the windows of the house we were leaving
Mother taking a photo through a keyhole in the fence
Of Dad who had fallen asleep on the other side of the fence
Dad waked up
We were driving two cars. Bob was driving a 1932 Plymouth which he didn't push to go much faster than 40 mph. My dad was riding shotgun.
The 1932 Plymouth getting gas
I was driving a VW bus, with my mother to help with our two children, age 5 and age 3.
Children asleep in the VW
We had walkie talkies to communicate from one car to the other.
When we travel, we try to have something for the kids to do every day. We start with an early breakfast, stop for gas about 10, eat a quick lunch someplace, stop for gas about 2 and then stop about 4 at a motel with a pool or where there was something interesting for the kids to do.
BB picking cotton
We were taking the southern route, so we drove down through central California. We probably did not get away early on the first day and probably stopped the first night in Paso Robles or Bakersfield.
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