remembrance of travels past

There were three of my grandchildren that I had missed traveling with when they were young teens. Two of them had been 24 and 26 years old. I thought that maybe I could still travel with Mike or his brother or sister. Mike and his sister had visited his parents when his mother was on a job...

Then we went to a wooden shoe factory Granddaughter and Guide outside the shoe factory and they gave us a talk on making the cheese and showed us how they made the shoes. We got to taste some of the cheeses - or I did. (All this was what we missed on the Tulip canal cruise Bob and I took in...

Since we were to be picked up at 10, I didn't leave a wake-up call. I waked up at about 7 and got dressed and organized before I waked up my granddaughter. She had fallen asleep with her ear buds in and I had to touch her before she waked up. She does sort of spring awake immediately. We went...

Bridge traffic light Montelbaanstoren tower restaurant market stalls from the back Looking down the canal fancy lights bridge and boat Bridge stop light Girl in the window No alcohol zone bikes by the canal Swan escort We got the wheelchair back. Now to get back to the...

Jug in the window of the Monkey Bar Older buildings have smaller bricks Delft store Logo on the Blue Delft store Doelen Hotel-the oldest hotel in Amsterdam. Rembrandt lived here for a period of time and painted the Nightwatch in a room on the third floor. Swan in a canal He asked...

My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and...

The National Monument on Dam Square (Dutch: Nationaal Monument or Nationaal Monument op de Dam), Amsterdam, is a 1956 World War II monument in the Netherlands Madame Tussaud Munt Tower orphans depicted in a fake window on the wall Former orphanage door Nun statue - or more accurately...

I am leaving for my last grandchild trip. She's the youngest of my 11 grandchildren. She is 12.5 May 29 KLM-Delta Flight to Amsterdam leaving Houston-Bush 1505. Arriving Amsterdam 7:20 May 30 Hotel in Amsterdam: Ibis Amsterdam Centre Address: Stationsplein 49, 1012 AB Telephone number: +31 20...

The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians lived in pueblos south of Colorado. I remember that after we left the Sand Dunes, we visited their home pueblo - I do not know what the connection was...

We did one additional trip in Colorado before we started for home. We drove over to the other side of the Rockies to the Uncompahgre Plateau. Tennessee pass (Standing or sitting on the rock markers of the passes is a family tradition) My mother was intrigued by the columbines growing wild...

Miss Kettle's house in Westcliffe Miss Kettle (one of my father's school teachers) had a house in Westcliffe. We went up Round Mountain, a small mountain in the valley, and looked for garnets. (I don't think we found any). From Round Mt. 1948 - Silver Cliff closest to us and the upstart...

My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet Mountains on the east and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (part of the Rockies) on the west. Wet Mountain Valley looking toward the Sangre de...

My dad with his mom, me, my sister and my mom My sister and I wore dresses most of the time. Usually made by my mother. She would make one for my sister and one for me, and then when my sister grew into my dress, she made another one for me in a bigger size. After I grew out of the dresses...

After we left Uncle Leonard's, I am not absolutely sure of the sequence of events. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park Chipmunk lured out with a PBandJ and I remember seeing the Rocky Mountain Sheep, but I don't have any photos of them. Me up on the rocks in Rocky Mountain National...

Then Uncle Leonard took us to the Union Pacific rail-yards. Union Pacific railyard Uncle Leonard with us My sister and me - railroad engineers My sister and me My sister waving from the train engine Next he took us to Cheyenne. Daddy could take a photo of the capital, Capital of...

After we crossed the South Dakota border, we were in Wyoming. Buffalo Bill statue in Cody WY "Buffalo Bill -- the Scout," a bronze sculpture of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a western scout at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. The statue was created in 1924 to...

Road in SD One of our entertainments was reading the Burma Shave signs. We also visited Wall SD - we wanted to see Wall Drug Store. Wall advertised all along the road. They advertised ice water and ice cream. My mother had a thing about milkshakes which were relatively new at that time...

During World War II, gas and tires were rationed and the factories were producing tanks and vehicles for the troops. We had a black 1940 Ford two door sedan. My mother loading the 1940 Ford with lead cages for an experiment in 1946 We lived in a little house in Roland Park Maryland. Our...

The two older girls and I took the train up to New York City where the Intrepid was docking for Armed Forces Day.. Before he got there, I tried out for and made it onto the old Jeopardy program with Art Fleming. When the carrier arrived, we watched as it came around the corner of the cruise...

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...