Carla and I drove across the United States, from Pasadena, California. Going east, our overnight stays were in Orem, Utah; Keystone and Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Chicago, Illinois; Williamsville, New York; and, finally, with Elliott and Ginger in Littleton, Massachusetts. There, we joined with the Parkers, including David and Lauren, and continued driving to Prince Edward Island, in Canada, stopping overnight in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, where Emma, Ethan, and Sophie crossed the falls on the zip line.
We enjoyed a week together In Prince Edward Island in a coastal home near Tignish.
Our return drive took us back to Littleton and, from there, overnight stays in Palmyra, New York; Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania; Canton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Springfield, Missouri; Woodward, Oklahoma; Springer, New Mexico; and Kingman, Arizona. It wasn’t always possible, but we tried to avoid the Interstate Highway System. It was a great way to see the country.
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- This Mexican pickup truck parked at the North Orem La Quinta was hauling an old MG.
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- Here’s the MG.
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- We left La Quinta on a Saturday morning, August 14, with clouds threatening.
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- The Church’s site at Martin’s Cove in Wyoming
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- Baby clothes at Martin’s Cove
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- Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln
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- The Mt. Rushmore sculptor
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- In front of the Travelodge, Keystone, South Dakota, still has one of these
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- Keystone kids
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- Badlands National Park
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- Bighorn Sheep in Badlands
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- Bison in Badlands
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- People at Badlands
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- Sunday dress in Badlands; we’d attended a Rapid City sacrament meeting
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- Don’t get lost
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- Badlands trail
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- Inside Badlands
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- Capitol in Pierre
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- Where I went to law school 1966-1969
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- Where I lodged on the third floor with Dave Webster during law school
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- Our first temple
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- My return with Carla after serving in the Eastern States Mission
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- Five candles old
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- A couple bicycling across the country took a picture for us, but I must have taken this one
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- Our cottage
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- Emma, Elliott, and Ethan testing the water on arrival
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- Tignish sunrise
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- Tignish sunset
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- Sophie
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- Collecting smooth rocks
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- Henry
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- Sophie and Carla
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- Quiltermakers
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- Carla’s Maxfield ancestors farmed this field
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- Carla with Don Maxfield
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- A Maxfield grave in Bedeque
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- Where Lucy Maud Montgomery taught in Lower Bedeque
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- An apple for Miss Montgomery
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- Where Carla’s Mormon Maxfield ancestors left PEI
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- Malpeque Harbor
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- Cabot Beach
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- After lunch with Curtis and Judy Piper and their talking dog.
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- Guarding the port
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- Cannons guarding Charlottetown
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- The PEI Governor lives here
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- The Queen slept here on PEI visits
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- Sheltering the Governor’s garden
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- In the PEI Governor’s garden . . .
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- Judy Piper and Carla in the Governor’s garden
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- near Springbrook
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- A PEI church and bell tower from 1836
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- A favorite PEI location
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- Carla, Ginger, Elliott, Andrew, Sophie, Henry, David, Ethan, Lauren, and Emma
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- Super Henry
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- Ethan, Andrew, David, Lauren, Elliott, Henry, Brent, Carla, Ginger, Sophie, and Emma
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- Birthday dinner for Andrew
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- Henry
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- Lighthouse at the North Cape
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- After dinner, at the North Cape
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- Where helped celebrate birthdays for Lauren and Andrew
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- Sophie harvests blueberries
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- Our capes
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- Between the cottage and the main road
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- The cottage road, muddy when it rained
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- Our last day
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- Our last Tignish evening