1966

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 the car Bob preparing the Convertible Sedan for the drive The only thing I remember about it was his great hospitality The girls in Joe's pool...

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 this part of the trip took eight or nine days. after we left Colorado It's so flat it must by Kansas In those days gas was really this cheap per...

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 road through - you have to go down around the south end of the mountains and come back up the other side. (Westcliffe and Silver Cliff are only one mile...

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 And I knoe this because I have photos (!) Wolf Creek sign and distance to Durango from here. Hot Spring ...on our way to the Great Sand Dunes...

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 spent two nights at the Grand Canyon (Day 4 and Day 5) and left early on Day 6 for this drive. But I seem to remember leaving soon after sunrise on Day...

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 the desert, and heat, sun and dehydration are life-threatening problems. The top of the Grand Canyon is up at altitude (6,790' Elevation for the South...

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 miles 4.5 hours Welcome sign. This was before there was a Glass Skywalk or a zipline We took some photos when we got there, but the light at noon 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 sure we traveled on US Route 66 for a large part of this trip. This is part of the California Route 66 from Barstow to Needles, and a piece of the...

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 established. Calico is 10 miles north of Barstow, Exit I-15 at Ghost Town Rd. Calico was set up as an old mining town, and it has about 1/3rd of the...

On Saturday, we put the kids in the nursery and drove down to Hearst Castle and took the tour. Bob drove. My parents and I took pictures. Even though I know that he was there (he's in some of the photos), he doesn't remember it. My conclusion is - if you take pictures you remember where you went...

I wrote in the Christmas letter: "This year started as last year ended, with Bob at his studies. We managed a snowy trip to Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park, highlighted by a 3 a.m visit of a bear to our housekeeping cabin." In April my parents visited San Francisco for the Anatomy Meetings...

San Juan Bauptista was once the largest town in central California and the hub of travel between northern and central California. Much of San Juan Bautista is a state park. But the mission is only associated with the State Park- not a part of it. We visited the mission and associated...

We visited the Carmel mission Carmel mission Courtyard Mission bell Cemetery next to the mission Old Gabriel - Aged 151 years My dad and kids by the fountain What I remember best about the visit to Carmel-by-the-Sea was having lunch in a little cafe. They had sugar cubes for tea...

My parents visited several places in Monterey itself - some of the historic houses House of the Four Winds and Casa Vasguez Stevenson House Stevenson House Dad and Mother reflected Hobby horse in the nursery Dolls and toys Old Jail Gordon House sign Larkin House Sancho Panza...

we went to Pioneer Village with it's talking bridge, Split rail fence The Yosemite Transportation Office was constructed in Yosemite Valley in 1910 by the Yosemite Valley Railroad Company as a transportation terminal and telecommunications hub. This building, which was also used by Wells...

After my parents finished with the conference in San Francisco, we had a picnic among the big trees in Big Basin, Picnic Big Basin-Dad's picture of me my kids and my mom In those days you could buy packets of food to feed the deer. This is no longer the case. Mom's picture Stellar Jay...

We visited Golden Gate Park with my mom and dad. The park is one of AAA's starred attractions in San Francisco. The park was created by John McLaren, a Scotsman, out of waste land. He arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s, and by 1890 he had established grass, trees and numerous plants in an...

In April of 1966, my parents took a trip out to San Francisco for the Anatomy meetings . Then in September they went west again to Oregon and toured the Columbia River. This blog is photos taken from a train on one of those trips. (Some are labeled with a place and some are not, so I can't...

- Cathedral Spires Falls Walking down a path Bridge My mom wanted to get a good picture of the reflection in Mirror Lake. So we got up early because the 'mirror' didn't work if there was any wind and we wanted to have the lake be absolutely still. Mirror Lake - me and daughter There...

At Easter (April 11th) The girls and I went to Yosemite with my parents. Oldest Rocks sign We stayed in a cabin In the picture (taken by my mom) we see me and my two kids and my dad who is carrying a box of supplies. We probably had breakfast and lunch supplies for the time we were there...