[DollyCali]

Wow, what a tremendous thread!!!!! Billie, it is beautifully done.. the map matting & gold/silver accents and the great buff colored texture (yupper, gonna grab it)and the selection and use of pictures amazing. I love how you used the pledge pix of Dave's grandchildren. wonderful. We all know how much work it is to do these threads/HTML. I am so glad that you will be reposting them now & then. Lots of the old timers may have missed them & the newer folks weren't here.

Dave, I cannot remember much(if anything) from the age you are referring to . You are amazing. Prolly the videos your folks took helped to keep the things fresh. and what a wonderful trip. 2 and a half months.. and to me the most amazing thing is. I need to reread, as I quickly scanned the stops etc (funny about the first water fear..crabs and then you go on to be a diver)

Was your dad a teacher to be off in summer? wonder how much that trip cost then & the translation to today's money.

Your folks did a great thing with this trip in visiting family, sites in US & giving you all a great opportunity to bond & burn life long memories of fun/joy.

HOW DID YOU ALL FIT IN THE CAR & NOT SUFFOCATE.. No air conditioning, lots of people. Well, I guess one just made due. thank you for sharing the great tale with Billie so she could present it to us

[Billie]

This beautiful and peaceful setting in Louisiana and Mississippi no longer looks like that after Katrina ravaged it. :(

[Billie]

Dolly, thank you. You always say the nicest things and take note of the little things that each of us does with our presentations.

I had forgotten how *much* I enjoyed reading this opening, until I read it again this morning to repost!

Dave may not be here very much today, as he wasn't sure just when I would post this again.