Riverside, Ca. December, l958

Dan is in Donna's arms and doesn't show up to well, but this was our first rental near
Sierra Jr. high school where I taught.
Caroline Leeland, an old friend of my Mother, Emma Thompson Rye, was with us for a time around Dan's birth. I spoke of her in an earlier blog and in 1965 or later, we were pulling our 27' camper trailer from California to Hills, mn. then North to Fargo, N.D where visited her on our trip back to California via the Canadian highway.We missed the rodeo at Calagry but saw an old fashion steam engine trashing wheat.. Greg was now along 6 months old and at one overnite park where we camped the bears were quick to eat Greg's disposable diaper as we discarded the in the trash.
We later visited Victoria. B.C. and took the camper and 65 New Yorker on the ferry boat to Victoria islandwhere we saw a bus driver who was the spitting image of our Shawnee Mission IBM friend, Owen Craig. When little Owen went by hid dad's office he called it the big bm.
We then went through Seattle where Dan, Brigid and Summer keep their power boat, The Sunshine of Phoenix.