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Great memories, Eh?

The summer I was SIX, my Dad piled us 3 boys (I was oldest), Mom, himself (of course!), and as much gear as would fit into our big ol’ Chevy station wagon, and we headed out from Eastern Kansas to take a 3 week trip to CA, then up through the redwoods and then along the coast into B.C., then to Saskatchewan, then down through the Black Hills / Dakotas, and back home to Kansas.

Mostly we camped, but we did stay at a couple friends of Dad’s, and maybe 3-4 motels too.

I’ve forgotten many parts of it, but still have some great memories, reinforced through my childhood by all the slides (photos) my Dad took and would replay now and then when other family friends or relatives visited... :-)

Some of my dads uncles on his fathers side {granddads brothers} were from Cowley County, KS. My granddad lived in Oklahoma and moved to Knoxville, TN back in the early 1920's where my grandmother was from. She had moved to Oklahoma to live with her sister a few years. They moved to Knoxville before the Dust Bowl hit.

The year before we went to Alaska we went north up into Ontario and crossed Canada to British Columbia and down along the coast. Got to see Banff and Jasper and a side trip into Yellowstone visiting family in Wyoming. We stayed out of Cali though. I went there later in the early 1980's driving an 18 wheeler into LA.

I took a vacation in 2019 out west & went through Black Hills then Yellowstone. It was early June and Nebraska and Dakotas were already and oven LOL