So Leona said, "Why don't we drive up there now"? Well, someone had sense enough to say that we had better take something to lunch on till we got there because this was about 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon. So, we started to get food together for a "picnic" sort of meal to eat on the way and that took about an h0ur or so and Mom Farnsworth thought we had better take some blankets with us because we had Florence, Lester Bert, Bobby A. (Leona and Al's boy, Bob's age) and our boy Bob Earl, and they might get cold, etc., etc., etc. And off we went. We were going to go up Highway one which at that time looked like an old country road but it followed the Pacific Ocean front. We hadn't gone very far when the fog settled in and we were creeping along to get to the Redwoods! The fog got thicker and thicker and it was getting later and later and finally we couldn't even see to drive!!! So we decided it was time to stop and have a bite to eat and see what kind of a situation we were in! We pulled off on the right hand side of the "road" and found ourselves on a big flat "rock"! The men started to gather driftwood to start a fire to keep us warm and while we were eating our "picnic"! It was really late and the fog was so bad behind us and in front of us, in fact, we didn't know where we were or why, at that moment. The little ones, the two Bobby's anyway were getting fussy, (hey, they were only about a year and a half old!) so I told my Mother-in-law that I was going to get in the seat of our car with our Bobby and I would use our coats to cover us and I was going to try and get some sleep! Mom decided that she and Leona, Bobby A. and Florence would get into another car and the men said they would keep the fire going till morning!!!! I must have been very tired because the next thing I knew it was dawn and the men were standing around the fire trying to decide what we were going to do! Someone was smart enough to suggest we try to see the Redwoods another time and so we got the fire put out with the sand that was all over at that place and we headed home! Now we could at least "see" where we had been, getting up there to that spot and how lucky we were not to have ended up "shark food"! We just took right off for San Francisco and left Leona and family in Bodega Bay!!! When we got back to San Francisco my brother-in-law Lafay called us and wanted to know how he could get in touch with Cappy and so Cappy took the phone to hear him tell us that he and another brother, Bert had a job for Cappy in Mexico if he wanted to take it! And that was why and when we went to Mexico to live for??? We didn't know at the time how long it would be!!! In later years I got my chance to see the Coast Redwoods and it would have "possibly" been worth the trip, fog and all!!!!!
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Dumb trips!
I have really taken a lot of trips in my life! After Cappy died, I felt that I hadn't done too much traveling "just for the fun of it!" But one trip we took when he was alive keeps popping into my head and so I decided to write about that! We had traveled to San Francisco to see Cappy's folks and his sister Leona called and said, "Why don't you guys come on up here?" They lived in Bodega Bay at the time. So we took Cappy's parents and his daughter and son with us to visit there. We had to take another car because we couldn't all fit into ours. During the visit my Father-in-law said that someplace he had always wanted to see and really wanted to see was the California Redwoods.
So Leona said, "Why don't we drive up there now"? Well, someone had sense enough to say that we had better take something to lunch on till we got there because this was about 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon. So, we started to get food together for a "picnic" sort of meal to eat on the way and that took about an h0ur or so and Mom Farnsworth thought we had better take some blankets with us because we had Florence, Lester Bert, Bobby A. (Leona and Al's boy, Bob's age) and our boy Bob Earl, and they might get cold, etc., etc., etc. And off we went. We were going to go up Highway one which at that time looked like an old country road but it followed the Pacific Ocean front. We hadn't gone very far when the fog settled in and we were creeping along to get to the Redwoods! The fog got thicker and thicker and it was getting later and later and finally we couldn't even see to drive!!! So we decided it was time to stop and have a bite to eat and see what kind of a situation we were in! We pulled off on the right hand side of the "road" and found ourselves on a big flat "rock"! The men started to gather driftwood to start a fire to keep us warm and while we were eating our "picnic"! It was really late and the fog was so bad behind us and in front of us, in fact, we didn't know where we were or why, at that moment. The little ones, the two Bobby's anyway were getting fussy, (hey, they were only about a year and a half old!) so I told my Mother-in-law that I was going to get in the seat of our car with our Bobby and I would use our coats to cover us and I was going to try and get some sleep! Mom decided that she and Leona, Bobby A. and Florence would get into another car and the men said they would keep the fire going till morning!!!! I must have been very tired because the next thing I knew it was dawn and the men were standing around the fire trying to decide what we were going to do! Someone was smart enough to suggest we try to see the Redwoods another time and so we got the fire put out with the sand that was all over at that place and we headed home! Now we could at least "see" where we had been, getting up there to that spot and how lucky we were not to have ended up "shark food"! We just took right off for San Francisco and left Leona and family in Bodega Bay!!! When we got back to San Francisco my brother-in-law Lafay called us and wanted to know how he could get in touch with Cappy and so Cappy took the phone to hear him tell us that he and another brother, Bert had a job for Cappy in Mexico if he wanted to take it! And that was why and when we went to Mexico to live for??? We didn't know at the time how long it would be!!! In later years I got my chance to see the Coast Redwoods and it would have "possibly" been worth the trip, fog and all!!!!!
So Leona said, "Why don't we drive up there now"? Well, someone had sense enough to say that we had better take something to lunch on till we got there because this was about 4:30 or 5:00 in the afternoon. So, we started to get food together for a "picnic" sort of meal to eat on the way and that took about an h0ur or so and Mom Farnsworth thought we had better take some blankets with us because we had Florence, Lester Bert, Bobby A. (Leona and Al's boy, Bob's age) and our boy Bob Earl, and they might get cold, etc., etc., etc. And off we went. We were going to go up Highway one which at that time looked like an old country road but it followed the Pacific Ocean front. We hadn't gone very far when the fog settled in and we were creeping along to get to the Redwoods! The fog got thicker and thicker and it was getting later and later and finally we couldn't even see to drive!!! So we decided it was time to stop and have a bite to eat and see what kind of a situation we were in! We pulled off on the right hand side of the "road" and found ourselves on a big flat "rock"! The men started to gather driftwood to start a fire to keep us warm and while we were eating our "picnic"! It was really late and the fog was so bad behind us and in front of us, in fact, we didn't know where we were or why, at that moment. The little ones, the two Bobby's anyway were getting fussy, (hey, they were only about a year and a half old!) so I told my Mother-in-law that I was going to get in the seat of our car with our Bobby and I would use our coats to cover us and I was going to try and get some sleep! Mom decided that she and Leona, Bobby A. and Florence would get into another car and the men said they would keep the fire going till morning!!!! I must have been very tired because the next thing I knew it was dawn and the men were standing around the fire trying to decide what we were going to do! Someone was smart enough to suggest we try to see the Redwoods another time and so we got the fire put out with the sand that was all over at that place and we headed home! Now we could at least "see" where we had been, getting up there to that spot and how lucky we were not to have ended up "shark food"! We just took right off for San Francisco and left Leona and family in Bodega Bay!!! When we got back to San Francisco my brother-in-law Lafay called us and wanted to know how he could get in touch with Cappy and so Cappy took the phone to hear him tell us that he and another brother, Bert had a job for Cappy in Mexico if he wanted to take it! And that was why and when we went to Mexico to live for??? We didn't know at the time how long it would be!!! In later years I got my chance to see the Coast Redwoods and it would have "possibly" been worth the trip, fog and all!!!!!
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