1982_Vacation
This vacation took place before digital photography was available.
Photos and more information may be included when available.
DATE yy-mm-dd - EVENT
1982-07-09 - ALA Conference in Philadelphia - registered - Philadelphia to Wharf - Yacht harbor - photographed ship Moloshu and Gazela Primero & other boat tour of destroyer escort - bought chart - meeting Genealogical -
1982-07-10 - ALA Conference in Philadelphia - Presidents Program - my hotel room window overlooks Ben Franklin grave (died 1790)
1982-07-11 - ALA Conference in Philadelphia - Mass at Old St Joseph Church - oldest Roman Catholic in English USA
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1982-07-14 - ALA Conference in Philadelphia - to Post Office - wharf Star __ of Dakar - Gazela Primero flew to Hartford CT - rent car - to Pownal VT met RM Pelletier - Ann Droste & Collete P.
1982-07-15 - visit High School friend in Pownel VT - boot hunting - chocolate shop - Christmas store - pottery place - hike up mtn. steak supper at trailer hm
1982-07-16 - Pownal - to Maine to Bradbury Mtn. State Park (30mi N of Portland) photograph at Harrison Reservoir - to NH White Mtns - IH 93 - gas Conway, NH Breighton - Sebaco Lake StPk - 11.15 pm tent up Bradbury Mtn St Park
1982-07-17 - visit Bath ME - Bath & Bradbury Mtn St Park, Bath Library - got Letcher phone number - Apprentice (boat) Shop Rob Stevens - Massachusetts in Brunswic - Beans - return to park chat w/ Don unempl. teacher
1982-07-18 - to Bath ME then Camden ME State Park - Camden museums - HOT 95 degrees - Wiscasset bought 11.5 Dexter boots - 100 deg - 5.20pm - Camden Park - to Mt Battie - ph MW she sick - ph Mom - hot even in tent
1982-07-19 - Camden ME - phoned John Letcher - photographed Bluenose Jr schooner & Norwegian pram - hiked - mailed cards - phoned Mom. MTB., Gil T., J.Lyon
1982-07-20 - from Camden to SW Harbor - Acdia N. Pk - Brewer near Bangor - Bangor - Searsport Penobscot Marine Museum - SW Harbor talk with maritime architect John Letcher and was shown his original Aleutka boat - Acadia N.Pk. - supper at cove just on Mount Desert Island - Brewer ME Tamarack Motel
1982-07-21 - to Bangor talked libraries then to NH White Mtns - Calvin Coolage Park - Bangor ME - Calvin Coolage St Pk NH talked Libraries in Bangor - drove through NH White Mtns all campsites full - Calvin Coolidge Sate Park 9.30pm adorandac leanto great view over small valley - NPR program on Rupert Sheldrake
1982-07-22 - Burlington VT - Lake Champlain - Up NY - VT Woodford St Park Vermont generally driving west then south
1982-07-23 - Woodford St Park to Pownal - 9.30 met high school friend, RMP - to lake canoed till 3.45 pm - to Pownal - to Ballet under the Stars in nearby upstate New York - 12.25 back in Pownal VT
1982-07-24 - lay day in Powal VT 6.30 up laundry & breakfast - hike up long trail & back - apple barn - gift shop - bee hive in glass by window - steak supper
1982-07-25 - leaving Pownal VT to Bradley Airport CT- drove VT - Masachusetts - CT - home to Texas - phot Ann Droste & RM Pelletier w/ kitten - drove through Massachusetts fast traffic there, slower in CT - 3pm Bradley Airport in CT - put 1705.5 mi in rental car
flew home to McAllen, Texas
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