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Catherine Browning McFarlane: Leisure and travel? Whit’s That?! Perhaps this is the old Scots background. "Leisure and travel’ were not words in our vocabulary for the most part, except that you went where the Lord sent you. That would ... |
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Rev. Theresa M. Lister:
I did travel across country when I was about 15yrs, I want to disney world. |
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Elizabeth: Leisure and Travel Well i have quite a few hobbies. I love to sew and make things with jus some needle and thread the old fashioned way no sewing machine just my hands. i ... |
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A New Beginning:
I travels to Spain, Costa Rica, Jamacia, and other locations. My traveling helped me to rediscover who I was. When I am alone without my children I feel lonely. I have learned ... |
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DEVONTE ERVIN:
gurls and florida, california |
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Florence Louise Light Manning Flynn: Mom’s Famous Flight Book Whenever Flo traveled from about 1995 until around 2000, she carried her little flight book. In it, she wrote poetry, prose, thoughts about her life, her family, and all sorts of ... |
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MARVA:
Our Trip to Monroe and New Orleans on the train with the fam , what a experience! |
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Betty Endrek: We Bought a Summer Home on Devil’s Lake We bought a place in Michigan at Devil’s Lake and we still have a summer home there. Well, we spent a lot of summers up there because it wasn’t winterized but ... |
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Jeff Perry: Kilimanjaro Diary I’m now sitting in a plane waiting to depart from Atlanta. It is raining like crazy outside with lots of thunder and lightning ... |
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John Matson: I’ve always been a bit of a craftsman. I came to Burlingame, California with my buddy Tom Riel for a visit in 1951. His sister lived there, and we came out to see her. Burlingame ... |
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Dorothy Gibson: Pameco Beach, Family Reunions, Disneyland, Yosemite, and Alaska Every year when I was young, I’d go back down to Landrum to visit Cleo and we just would have a great time. They’d let me stay about ... |
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Nancy Tucker: I Enjoy Family History and Dogs I Enjoy Family History and Dogs I do a lot of genealogy. I enjoy dogs. I had a back problem and had surgery. I can’t do some things. Vern and I used to sail together and race our FJ sailboat. But the back doctor said no more, so I don’t do that anymore. Instead I usually am on the race committee, calling the finishes on the finish line. My doctor told me to swim. |
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Virginia Congdon Robertson: Idyllic Summers in a Little Home on the California Coast Well, when I got to be eight years old my aunt would take me over to Cayucos. And she always took my grandfolks Fishers—Grandma and Grandpa Fisher—over to the coast for ... |
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Dorothy Zeyen: We Had a Great Time Sailing and SCUBA Diving We had our sailboat and didn’t know spit about sailing. And lucked out—it had a power to it to so we could go to power when we had to. But it ... |
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Zora Thompson: SUMMER TRIPS WITH DAD AT ABOUT THIS TIME, MY FATHER DROVE US TO AKRON, OHIO. WE WENT OUT TO WRIGHT FIELD WHERE THE DIRIGIBLES WERE MADE. IN THE HANGAR THE MACON WAS STANDING. MY FATHER ... |
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Than Bischoff: I Surf, and Meet Some of the Surfing Greats I started surfing in the nineteen sixties when it was a fad. I had a couple of Woody station wagons and boards. I really enjoyed the beach life, and I frequented ... |
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Vern Tucker: For Many Years I Led Girl Scouts on Wilderness Expeditions Susan used to work for ... |
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Sharon Abernethy: Family Camping Trips in the High Sierra With our family if we went somewhere it was usually camping. That was good because my family didn’t do that when I was growing up. It was a real treat. The ... |
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Ruth Schimpl-Gremling: Bus and Camping Trips We did; Ruth and I and Janet, we did take some bus tours and that was fun, because when Bill was alive our thing was camping. That was all we could ... |
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Ruth Sampson: We’ve Seen All 50 States, Mexico and Canada We did a lot of traveling, thank goodness. We’ve been in all 50 states and down in Mexico and Canada. We love to travel. I was like my grandmother and my ... |
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Ron Lyons: Shoestring Travel to Mexico and Europe in the Early 1950s In 1952 I decided I would ... |
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Robert Hutchinson: Hobbies? I have thousands of hobbies! I love to cook. I came from a cooking family. When I was born we had a big wood burning iron stove. My grandmother and mother cooked constantly, so you could ... |
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Rick James: 1968: During the Summer of Love, We Vacation in San Francisco We used to go see my dad’s kids from a previous marriage. They were quite a bit older and they lived in San Francisco. We went up to visit my brother ... |
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Ralph Appio: I collect trains We used to buy Cornflakes and they would have a little American Train set that went with it. It was one of those chrome tables and we got that. And she ... |
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Phil Camacho: I’m Owed a Lot of Back Vacation Pay I never had time off. No, anytime I wanted to go on vacation they needed me for something so I kept staying there. I didn’t get paid extra for it but ... |
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Peggy Winkle: A Sightseeing Drive across the USA Well, one of the nicest times I had was in 1945. That was the year that my father decided to move from Florida to California and they decided I should go ... |
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Pauline Dora Zeltner: I Traveled to Europe to Study Well, we’d go to Fort Wayne to visit my mother’s uncle for a day or two or three, that would be it. We did go to Cleveland a couple times and ... |
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Brian Anderson: Observations from a Family Road Trip First leg we drug our baby and 3 ... |
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Bob Stahl: Skiing, Lakes, Mountains, Seashore, and Islands When I lived in Vermont I was really into downhill skiing. When I came to California I never skied. But this winter I skied for the first time in 30 years. ... |
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Bob Newman: Andree and I Travel the World, and 49 of the 50 United States So we planted and raised trees. 65 years old turned into 70. I was doing a lot of grass cutting. My wife and I talked about it and we decided that ... |
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Bertine Hancock: We Saw a Lot of the United States Well, we of course didn’t make any vacations until after our daughter born. I don’t remember we traveled too much before because we both worked and our vacations didn’t hit the ... |
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Bernie Miller: Cruises Have Taken us to some of the World’s Most Beautiful Places For the first twenty years we had the store we didn’t take any vacations. I worked seven days a week most weeks, and two or three nights a week. I was ... |
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Bequia Cooper: Maynard and I Travel the US in 9 Months and 24,000 Miles. Woof! So I took the money I saved for graduate school and got a different education. So at the age of 26 my dog Maynard and I hopped into my Honda civic. ... |
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Barry Morris Brooks: Seeing the world for free! My very first trip was to Kuala Lumpur. I remember telling my mom and her asking what it was and where, and I told her I didn’t know but I was ... |
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Ann Urbanski: Family Trips by Road and Air Lou: Blamey ... |
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Angelo Grova: How a Postcard from California Changed my Life Before I was drafted, I was a photographer for NBC and I did work photographing the shows to use as advertising. After two years of that I decided I didn’t want ... |
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Aldo Cooper: Kayaking was the Love of my Life for 20 Years I did a lot of skiing, both in the back country and in ski areas. I also had some knee injuries when I was doing Telemark skiing, which is a knee-intensive ... |
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Elnora Taylor: Oklahoma to California: A Five Year-Long Road Trip When we left Oklahoma City, I was ten years old. We left in August. My mother wanted to get out of Oklahoma. The dust bowl was happening during this time, but ... |
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Elizabeth Lucille Rozelle: One Vacation Ended Abruptly on a Sad Note The year my husband retired we took an extended trip. When we started out we went to Orlando. Of course did the Epcot, the Disney thing and on down to Tampa ... |
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Doug and Ginger Levick: We Spent Four Years Living and Working in Europe DOUG: We lived a very nice life for four years. I had a very good job as a controller of IBM Europe. There were 100,000 people there working at IBM at ... |
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Doris Robertson-Polley: Japan Holds a Special Place in My Heart My husband did all the driving ... |
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Walta Lou Wilcox: Camping Trips with the Family We used to take and we’d go camping, I had fold-down campers. We went down south and there were three or four years we went up into Michigan and got a cabin on the lake. |
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Don George Alexander: We Enjoy our Lakeside Cottage And we bought a – my wife and I bought a cottage in ’54, I think it was, up on the lake and back in the 70s the storms washed us ... |
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Denise Morra: Road Trip! Bill, Me, and Two Cats Tour the US in a VW Bug We traveled around the country for about nine months. We were in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Eureka, California. I was too young to even know that I was supposed to think. I remember ... |
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Darwin Hintz: My Work Schedule Limited our Leisure Time Well, vacations were kind of hard to come by because of the company’s commitments, so ... |
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Dale Townsend: Mother Always Said: “Make Sure You Travel Before you Settle Down” My mother would always mention it to me visit our maternal grandparents in Hamilton, Ontario. That was a big deal. They used to make sure to take us to museums and ... |
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Chris Beaudoin: At the ’64 Seattle World’s Fair, We Get VIP Treatment A really fantastic trip was to the 1964 World’s Fair in Seattle. Because my ... |
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Jean Disher: Visiting Relatives, Ohio to Wisconsin Our vacations were basically going from Ohio to Wisconsin and when we did that we always visited all of our relatives. My mother’s side of the family had – I have ... |
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George Newell: I’ve been to Every Continent except Antarctica We like to travel. When Carol got out of college she went to work for PanAm and that was a great experience for her. Because of that she just naturally is ... |
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George Dunn: My Daughters Loved Driving Around in the Convertible I was trying to get systems in and stuff. It took a lot of time. I spent a lot of time teaching the guys what to do cause a lot of ... |
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Mel Wilcox: I Never Got My Motorcycle, but I Had a Great Trip Cross-Country Anyway When I got out there ... |
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Vince Tolaio: Lots of Business Travel, but now we Cruise When I was working for the tannery I had a lot of travel to Europe and the orient. After that it’s been cruises. We take a cruise once in awhile. It’s ... |
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Madonna Wagner: We Pioneered Surfing on Michigan Lakes We always vacationed in Michigan. We always had a boat. We had a playmate 90 horse – like a little convertible. It was like a little convertible. It was a good ... |
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Lou Urbanski: Lou Enjoys his B&B before Bedtime Annie: Well, it’s funny because we laugh about this, but that’s Lou’s one downfall is B&B and every night he has his little toddy before he goes to bed. I never ... |
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Larry Coppes: We Take Some Working Vacations to Texas and Arkansas We had one big trip together as a family. After got laid off at Dow chemical I was put on the trip crew. I went to the Dow plant About 30 ... |
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Kathleen Gambogi: We Moved to Mexico Lock, Stock, and Barrel (And Bob had never even seen our new hometown!) We had been looking for retirement places. We found our home in Todos Santos Mexico about five years before we actually retired. A girlfriend and I came to her timeshare in ... |
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Juanita Marie Schuck-Harris: I like to go on Cruises My husband never liked to travel. After he got home from the service he hated traveling, but that never stopped me from going. I love to cruise. I’m going on another ... |
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John Rialson: Rodeos, Cowboy Poetry and Mariachi Music The first cowboy poetry festival I went to was in Elko, Nevada. I went with a friend from Sedona named Tom. We really love the Sedona area, and will eventually probably ... |
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Lela Coppes: We Travel to the South Leisure and travel In 1976 Larry was working on a pipeline down in Magnolia, Arkansas. A kid’s and ... |
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Ralph Hempfling: When Money was Slim, Vacations were Few and Far Between Leisure and Travel Well, back in them days I don’t think we ever ... |
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Marilyn Patton: I Love Photography I Love Photography I’ve got more photographs that Carter has liver pills. I probably have 9000 photos on my computer and another 9000 paper photos. I’ve been trying ... |
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