[dutchess]

What a great thread today Lori. As a little one my brother, two cousins and I along with mom and aunt traveled cross country to California. This was pre car airconditioning etc. Stopped at the great Salt Lake for a swim. Refreshed, we headed on through the desert not realizing that you needed to rinse off. The salt crystalized on all of us, we were grumpy and miserable.

BTW...next stop LA...drove through right though the WATTS riots with snipers on the highways. (my aunt was the lead driver and thought it would be cool to be there!)

Have to run to work but wanted to say hi!

[Mama_Bear]

Hi ductchess. Gosh that sounds like a very interesting trip across country. I remember the Watts riots. That is the last place I would have wanted to be. LOL.

I have seen the Great Salt Lake and the salt flats as we drove past on one of our trips across country. All I remember about it is how alien and forbidding the place looked. I can't help but think that I would have been more than a little disappointed after that long hard journey across the plains had I been with Brigham Young as his party crested the mountains east of what is now the Utah Valley and he proclaimed "this is the place". I'm sure the valley must have been beautiful and not at all like the nearby salt flats, still, I think I would have been envisioning something else....maybe palm trees and sandy beaches. LOL.

[iceskater]

BTW...next stop LA...drove through right though the WATTS riots with snipers on the highways. (my aunt was the lead driver and thought it would be cool to be there!)

I am old enough to remember the riots in Baltimore. I remember the tension and the curfews and how concerned my family was. My grandfather lost his business in all the destruction of the riots. Your aunt sounds amazing to go through all that in LA.