Easter Photos followed by 6 week trip across 16 states
May 27 – July 2, 1972
Nebraska State Capitol
First Baptist Church of Lincoln
Mitchell, South Dakota
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
Yellowstone National Park
Roosevelt Arch, Yellowstone North Entrance, Montana
Old Faithful Inn
Old Faithful Geyser (Wyoming)
Morman Tabernacle (aka Salt Lake Tabernacle)
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Daddy's 42nd birthday June 8, 1972
Hoover Dam, Arizona/Nevada
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Petrified Forest/ Painted Dessert, Arizona
Las Vegas, Nevada
May 27 – July 2, 1972
June 10-13 - Denver; saw old friends and Edsel flew to Dallas
June 13-25 - 3 girls drove to Alb and visited the Dowds. Edsel flew in and we continued the trip.
16 states and 6,000 miles in 5 weeks
States:
1. Texas
2. Oklahoma
3. Kansas
4. Iowa
5. Nebraska
6. South Dakota
7. Minnesota
8. Wyoming
9. Montana
10. Idaho
11. Utah
12. Colorado
13. New Mexico
14. Arizona
15. California
16. Nevada
Toured:
· Capital at Lincoln, NE
· Souix Falls, SD
· Mitchell’s Corn Palace, SD
· Wall Drug, SD
· Badlands, SD
· Mt Rushmore
· Deadwood
· Big Horn Mts.
· Cody, WY
· Yellowstone – Montana/Wyoming
· Grand Tetons
· Salt Lake City & St. George, UT
· Grand Junction, CO
· Albuquerque, NM
· Petrified Forest
· Painted Dessert
· Grand Canyon, AZ
· Hoover Dam
· Las Vegas
· London Bridge
· Lake Havasau, AZ
· Capital at Phoenix
· Tucson
· Saguoro National Monument
· White Sands
· Carlsbad Caverns
· Juarez, Mexico
· Midland-Odessa, TX