Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visited Golden Gate Bridge (?) - staying in Castro Valley with Aunt Judy & Uncle Jim]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visited San Francisco (?) - took Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) - staying in Castro Valley with Aunt Judy & Uncle Jim]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting Aunt Judy & Uncle Jim in Castro Valley]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - left Solvang - (used Pacific Coast Highway ?) - drove to San Francisco area (Castro Valley)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visited Solvang (?) - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - church - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry (Solvang)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - drove from San Fernando Valley to Solvang - staying with Aunt Nelle & Uncle Terry]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[church with family - visiting - staying in San Fernando Valley (Granada Hills)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visiting - (Disneyland?) - staying in San Fernando Valley (Granada Hills)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - early start - (drove around on the Strip) - (visited Hoover Dam ?) - left Las Vegas area in the afternoon - drove (via I-15 and I-10) to San Fernando Valley (Grenada Hills), CA - (stayed with Tammie and Alan ?)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - up early - continued on I-15 south until we were able to use back roads to visit Cedar Breaks National Monument - then made our way to Zion National Park - stayed there for a short time - next, left Utah and crossed a corner of Arizona - continued into Nevada - arrived in Las Vegas in the late afternoon - staying with Shorty and Charlene (cousins: Joy, Mary and John) - my parents went out to the Strip in the evening and I played strategy games (with dice) with John]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - left early and drove across Utah (on I-70 and I-15) - ended up at a campground with horseback riding (Beaver, UT, on I-15)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - left Rocky Mountain NP in the morning - drove over to Grand Junction (I-70 ?) - visited Colorado National Monument - filming for the movie "American Flyers" going on while we were there (couldn't see the whole park) - (likely continued into Utah and there camped)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - spent day in Rocky Mountain National Park]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - spent day in Rocky Mountain National Park - (possible Elitch Gardens - amusement park)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - up early - drove over to Wray *another town where Mom's family had lived - an old man on bicycle gives us tour of old museum with painting of family home - used US-34 (and I-76 ?) all the way to the northern suburbs of Denver - entered Rocky Mountains (camped ?)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - somehow we survived the night - drove west on US-6, paralleling Republican River - stopped at Massacre Canyon near McCook - changed to US-34 and crossed the NE/CO border near Wray (CO) - (hotel ?)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - left campground and made our way towards Nebraska (US-183 ?) - drove into Orleans, where Mom's family used to live - spent some time there before heading west again - camped in Swanson Res. State Recreation Area (Stratton, NE) - (HUGE storm clouds in distance) - scary night as a (tornado ?) hit the camp - didn't sleep very much at all]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - spent the day driving across the state (towards Kansas City) - stopped (late) at Harry S. Truman Home (Independence) - crossed into Kansas late (I-70) - KOA campground near Salina]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - visited Lincoln's birthplace (in Hodgenville) before getting on the road again - (drove up into Indiana - more Lincoln sites ?) - (probably used I-64) to Saint Louis - spent the night in that area (?)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - Kentucky Horse Park - drove over (Bluegrass Parkway ?) to visit Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home (Hodgenville) - (probably camping in same area)]

Summer Family Vacation - Day X

[date uncertain - woke up to sunrise in "Hidden Valley" (mountains all around) - Cass Scenic Railroad - National Radio Astronomical Observatory - drove through West Virginia to Kentucky (I-64) - (hotel near Lexington ?)]