Wonderful story dave and lovely presentation sistah billie. We did a 4 week cross country trip from Michigan to California when I was 11. Mom and her sister, my brother and two cousins, dad and my uncle were with us the first two weeks then returned home to work leaving my brother, then 14, the "man" of the family LOL! Your story dave brings back many special memories. Will try to stop back after work to "share"
Oh, one of the funniest stories, swimming in the Great Salt Lake and never thinking to "shower". Of course the salt on us "crystalized" and in the heat and no airconditioning we were pretty crabby kids by the time we got to our hotel that night!
I remember family vacations on Padre Island and many "lake" vacations - we stayed in the water practically the whole time!