Road Trip: Then and Now

When we resided in Warsaw/Winona Lake, Indiana from 1983 to 1984, before we headed out for the Summer, and for that matter Spring, Autumn and Christmas break too, Dad and Mum would go to the AAA (American Automobile Association) along with a Rand McNally road atlas of the USA and get recommendations on which highways and routes to take to the  destinations they had mapped out. 

Mum had an address book filled with addresses and phone numbers of friends, former classmates and relatives of hers and Dad's that we were going to visit. She would spend the school term corresponding with or calling them up and then deciding the route for our summer road trip to see these folks. 

We would set off from our trailer home in Warsaw, Indiana with the station wagon packed to the gills with our luggage, mum's wok and our violins as we traversed the length and breadth of the United States and also up to Toronto, Canada.

Here are the only pages I ever wrote about that road trip in 1984. I think the trip was far too eventful that I did not resume writing after these entries. 

This was the blue Buick that brought us around the USA in the holiday breaks of 1983 and 1984.
Here mum is posing before leaving the home for class in winter. She audited some college classes at Grace College.