May 27 day 26 –Earl and Ethel did not visit the La Brea Tar Pits, but, we did. Just like those 9-year-olds enthralled with the dinosaur bones (see Day 10 blog) the first time Carl read about Le Brea as…
Day 25 LA Stars
May 26 day 25 – Earl and Ethel’s Griffith Observatory photo gave us the only indication that the couple traveled to Los Angeles. It was their only photo in LA! The Griffith Observatory first opened in 1935 to wide acclaim.…
Day 24 Highway 66
May 25 day 24 – It wouldn’t seem right to have a US cross-county road-trip without mentioning Highway 66. Checking our 1930’s road maps the most direct route from Boulder Dam to Los Angeles would have taken the couple to…
Day 23 Boulder Dam
May 24 day 23 – Boulder Dam was a “BIG” thing in 1937, as it is today. The physical dam was only completed in 1936. The lake behind the dam was still filling when Earl and Ethel arrived a year…
Day 22 St George UT
May 23 day 22 – There were two photos of St George UT in Earl ad Ethel’s photo album. One was of the LDS Temple and the second was a panorama of a portion the city. We were able to…
Week 3 Zion & The Mystery Photo!
May 22, week 3 – Earl and Ethel had two photos at Zion National Park in their album. One was of the west side of the “short tunnel” and one of what is called the Altar of Sinawava. We originally…
Day 20 Grand Canyon-North Rim
Monday May 21 Day 20 – Grand Canyon is so appropriately named because it is, well, grand in so many ways. Nothing we’ve seen touches it in overall size, beauty, vistas, colors, ruggedness, history, sunrises, sunsets, night-skies, etc. Earl and…
Days 17-19 Bryce Canyon NP
May 18-20, days 17-19 – Friday was a travel day. Driving from Capitol Reef to Bryce NP, we visited the Anasazi Indian Village State Park in Boulder, UT. The archeological site was occupied 1000 to 800 years ago. We drove…
Day 16 Capitol Reef National Park
Thursday May 17, day 16 – Today we toured Capitol Reef National Park. Our 6-day detour east from the route Earl and Ethel likely took through central Utah to Bryce Canyon NP took us to three national parks, one national…
Day 15 Natural Bridges National Monument
May 16, day 15 – We went to Natural Bridges National Monument for the bridges but fell in love with the night sky! In 2007, the International Dark-Sky Association named Natural Bridges NP as the first Dark-Sky Park. This designation…
Day 14 Canyonlands National Park
May 15, day 14– Still on our side trip from the main route, we traveled to Canyonlands National Park. While only about 30 miles away from Arches NP its scenery is a world of difference. Where Arches is fluid, Canyonlands…
Days 12-13 Arches National Park
Earl and Ethel likely took highway 89 from Salt Lake City directly south to Bryce Canyon National Park. We chose to veer east on Highways 50 and 191 to stop at three other national parks in Utah that did not…
May 14 Our 35th Anniversary
May 14 is our 35th wedding anniversary. A love story within the honeymoon story we’re following. We spent the day within Arches National Park just outside of Moab, Utah. It was wonder-filled!
Day 11 – Salt Lake City, UT
Day 11 May 12, Salt Lake City, Utah Earl and Ethel took three pictures in Salt Lake City. Two were at the Utah State Capitol and one at the LDS Temple. We took duplicate photos at each location they did. …
Mother’s Day May 13
May 13, While on the road, this year Mother’s Day provides much opportunity for reflection and warm feelings. Our original intent was to document Earl and Ethel’s 1937 honeymoon and share it in printed version with each of our adult…
Day 10 – Dinosaur National Monument
May 11, day 10 – There was no photo record of Earl and Ethel visiting Dinosaur National Monument, but we did, and took a number of photos too! The park is just off their route and there was certainly enough…
Day 9 Highway 40
May 10, day 9 – Today was a 300+ mile travel day from Idaho Springs CO to Vernal Utah (about 15 miles across the Colorado border). Our route was Highway 40 and took about eight hours with stops. It was…
Day 8 Idaho Springs, CO
May 9, day 8 – Idaho Springs CO, Elev. 7540 Ft. We began our day with a tour of the Phoenix Gold Mine. A photo was taken of Earl and Ethel at the entrance to the Star Tunnel, a gold…
Day 7 – Lookout Mountain
May 8, day 7 – We drove to the top of Lookout Mountain just west of Denver today to visit the Buffalo Bill Cody museum and grave-site as Earl and Ethel did 81 years ago. Trees have since grown to…
Great Article About Our Trip – May 8
Kent Tempus of the Green Bay Press Gazette / Oconto County Reporter has put together a wonderful article released today about our trip. He attended our presentation and interviewed us at the Oconto Historical Society on May 4 . Follow…
Days 5-6 Denver
We walked the two blocks from our AirBnB guestroom to Denver’s Washington Park with great childlike anticipation. Wash Park as it is referred to by locals did not disappoint! Our first view of the park occurred right where Earl and…
Day 4 Cheyenne WY
Earl and Ethel encountered a cattle drive and could not resist getting a photo to document the moment. We couldn’t either! We traveled almost 1,000 miles on Highway 20 from Rockford to the Nebraska-Wyoming state line to capture the following…
Day 3 Rockford IL – ONeill NE
As mentioned in the “1st Leg” tab very likely the couple stayed their first night at the East Side Inn in Rockford, IL. The building is the first of many that they visited that is now on the National Register…
Day 2 – Waukegan, IL
We left “at seven” from Oconto and headed for Waukegan IL We stopped at the Waukegan Historical Society to see if they had information on where the County Clerks Office was located in 1937 for dispensing marriage licenses? The building…
Day 1- Oconto
What a wonderful start to our travel adventure! 35 friends, community, and family members turned out Wednesday evening to see our “Sentimental Journey” presentation at the Oconto Historical Society Beyer Home and Carriage House Museum. There was high Interest because…
A Sentimental Journey
Our adopted theme for our 1937 Honeymoon Trip Take Two has been “Sentimental Journey” by Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Doris Day as singer. Though the song was first released in 1945, its words and music seem to…
Ready to Roll!
We are down to our last day and last hours before hitting the road. Our test run for packing the SUV ten days ago helped a lot! Notice, NO SNOW!