Sunday June 10 – Dorothea Petersen was born in Drammen Norway in 1828. She and husband Andreas emigrated to the U.S. with their eight children in 1871. Another child, Martin, was born in 1873 when Dorothea was 43. The family…
Day 38 Pacific Ocean
June 8 – In 2016 at the start of this adventure, identifying where Earl and Ethel’s “Pacific Ocean” picture was taken was a challenge. We were not familiar with the Pacific coast and there was potentially over 900 miles of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We have Maps!
Our “go to” navigator of choice is the Google app, WAZE. We have been using this app since 2013 with good results. We call the female voice “Olivia” as in, Olivia Pope of the TV show, “Scandal.” She fixes things! …