Sept. 15, 2011

What was the longest trip you have ever taken? Who were you with, and where did you travel?

The longest trip was when I went through most of the states that are listed. We went as a family to the National Jamboree in Virginia but took the long way to get there. We went to Texas to show where the children and Marie where I had served my mission. We went on over to North Carolina where we stayed with Aunt Leora and Uncle Stan. We went to a number of historic sites as we went up the coast and finally arrived in Virginia where we went to the jamboree for about 5 hours. (And we were rained out.) We went to Washington where we met Uncle Chester and Aunt Helen Hill while they were there on a mission. We went to New Jersey where we stayed with one of Marie’s cousins and toured New York while there twice, once in the daytime and once at night. We went up on the World Trade Center Towers while there. We also went to Hershey Penn. And visited that as well as several sites of historic importance to the Civil War. We also went to Washinton DC and visited the area there including the Smithsonian Museums air flight

and one or two others. We then came back across the upper middle part of the states to Nauvoo where we stayed with Aunt Carma and Uncle Carling while they were serving a mission there. Carling took us on a special tour at night after everyone else was gone and we slept on the floor of their tiny apartment there. We continued across into Nebraska where stayed with Uncle Vaun and Aunt Elizabeth, (Marie’s Uncle.) Finally the kast place we stayed was with my cousins in Kemmerer Wyoming. We then traveled home after spending 18 days on this particular vacation. It was filled with sites and adventure and we will never forget Loren crying all the way up the stairs in the Statue of Liberty or the lockers falling on Brittany in a West Virginia motel which was owned by a doctor and who was there at the pool and took care of the cut on her head for us. I will never forget the sizes, since they were so small, of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria ships that were replicas of the ship Columus sailed in to America. The smell 10 miles out of Hershey Pennsylvania from the chocolate factory and the statues at Gettysburg. It was a very fun, fast trip.