1966 Cross Country Trip- Part 7- Montana

 

1966 Cross Country Trip- Part 6- Utah and Idaho

 Salt Flats- Utah

Idaho- Ashton- Highway 191

1966 Cross Country Trip- Part 5- California

 A visit to Mom's sister Jo and her family's house in California- I am not sure of the town though. Mom doesn't really remember- it might have been Oxnard, or somewhere near there. There are other photos but none of them even had Mom or Grandpa in them. I wish that they had been in some too.

with Grandma

San Francisco

Blue Star Highway

I am not certain where this is. When I looked up info online, it showed more than one in California. The photo is kind of fuzzy so if it is mentioned on the sign, I can't tell which it is.

1966 Cross Country Trip-Part 4- California

 

Arroyo Grande

Old Mission San Miguel

1966 Cross Country Trip- Part 3- California

Grandpa-on right

Santa Ana

San Bernardino

Oil Well- Pacific Ocean

My grandparent's car and trailer

Gaviota Pass

Gaviota Tunnel

I wasn't sure where the Gaviota Pass and Tunnel was in California so I looked up info about it. It is 33 miles NW of Santa Barbara, along US Route 101. The tunnel was completed in 1953. It is 420 feet long and 17.5 feet tall. This is at the center of Gaviota State Park and includes an Overlook.

 

1966 Cross Country Road Trip-Part 2- Arizona

 Painted Desert. Arizona

New Mexico

I forgot to post this in part 1. It is kind of hard to see what is in the photo- looks like a statue of a miner, or a bartender from the 1800s.

1966 Cross Country Road Trip- Mom and her parents

 Mom had the photo album of this trip in a storage tote for a very long time. I don't remember ever looking at it before the past few years I only had glanced through it a couple of times then.

Recently, I looked at it more closely and decided to scan the photos. They are printed on thick type paper and are in the pages pretty tight so they were hard to get out. It was easier just scanning each page. I did take a few of them out to do so though.

I haven't really talked to Mom about this vacation that much. She did mention the Pikes Peak, Colorado portion of it. There aren't any photos of that, just some footage on home movies which I saw for the first time a couple of months ago. I finally had her 8 mm film reels put onto DVD. She seemed pleased to see these.

I hadn't even realized that they visited her sister out in California as part of this until recently. Maybe Mom did mention it before but I just forgot.

I still have a lot more photos to crop and straighten as best as I can. I completed a handful yesterday. Here are the ones of Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Oklahoma

Grandpa- on left, with a local guy

3 locals and their doggie

New Mexico