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Leaving Etiwanda the morning of Sept. 8 for our trip across America.  

USA and Canada.  California, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York,

Niagara Falls Canada, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico,

Arizona.  17 States, Washington DC and Canada.   Over 10,000 miles driven.  

55 days on the road.  Home Nov. 1.

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After 2 flat tires on the trailer, it was time to buy new ones.  Beaver Utah.

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Tom and Marge chasing an Iguana in Green River Wyoming.

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Indiana State University.  Marge graduated with a degree in Drama and a Music minor.

Mills Hall.  Marge's dorm room on the 7th floor.

Left:  A bench on Campus.  Center:  The "Green Room" for school plays. Right: Student Union.

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Marge and Tom at their first "White Castle" of the trip.

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Marge's home where she grew up in Hammond, Indiana and Tom on Michigan Ave downtown Chicago.

   

Margarite (Marge) Skalba.  This is on the wall of the Gavit H.S. entry way.

"Senior of the Year"  of the 1966 Graduating Class.

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    Cleveland, OH "Rock and Roll" Museum.

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Niagara Falls (our first honeymoon)

 

  

Above are "Maid of the Mist" photos.

Below are "Cave of the Winds" photos.

 

Fort Niagara on Lake Ontario.

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Cooperstown (baseball hall of fame and museum)

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Norman Rockwell Museum. (take a break)

 

Tom could live at Norman Rockwell's studio.  High in the Berkshires.

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Shaker Historic Village

 

 

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Boston (MIT and Harvard)

MIT Above.  Harvard Below.

Boston

 

Boston Commons

 

North Church area where Paul Revere saw the lanterns hanging

 

Battle of Bunker Hill Memorial

   

 

Boston Lobster

Cobb Hill Cemetery

 

Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II

The Beach at Cape Cod

Salem "The Witch City"

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Amish Country (Lancaster, PA.)

  

  

 

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Gettysburg (Civil War)

Photos taken from "Little Round Top".

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Philadelphia (Independence Hall - Liberty Bell)

   

 

 

Our first Congress

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Hershey, PA (eat chocolate)

   

Notice the street lights

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Harrisburg, PA. Civil War Museum

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Washington DC (meeting with Pres. Obama)

 

The "Wall"

   

Above is the NEW WWll Monument.

   

 

Georgetown University

 

 

Arlington Cemetery

"The Kennedys".  Ted, Robert and John

 

 Air and Space Museum

   

 

Natural History Museum

Very large meteorites

Williamsburg (many taverns)

 

 

 

Richmond, VA

Montecello

   

Skyline Drive - Blue Ridge Mountains

 

Dirty Dancing Hotel

 

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Virginia Tech (see Craig Green)

 

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Tennessee (see Nancy Dyer)

Had Dinner with Bob and Nancy.

Downtown Gatlinburg, TN

Dolly Parton

Upside down house (Museum) Pigeon Forge

Memphis

Graceland

 

 

 

Beale Street

   

The Ducks - Peabody Hotel

   

    

 

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Oklahoma City (Oklahoma Bombing Park)

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This site and the bombing museum were the most 

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impressive stop on our trip.

   

   

   

Oil Wells Everywhere

Oil Wells are:  At the Mall.  McDonald's and even the State Capitol.

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Holbrook, AZ (Meteorites, Petrified Forest and Painted Desert)

OK RV Campground in Holbrook, AZ.  Our Last Campground before home.

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Home on Nov 1, 2009

 

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