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<\/a>[The Golden Gate Bridge opened in May 1937 so he must have traveled after that date.]\u00a0 “And he got there and then he was, it was kind of a warm afternoon.\u00a0 He was carrying his overcoat.\u00a0 And some of the guards or watchmen there tried to stop him.\u00a0 They said, \u201cIt\u2019s a long ways over that bridge.\u201d\u00a0 And they had had a number of suicides and wondered.\u00a0 They kept watch of anybody like that, an old man that, that wanted to walk there.\u00a0 But he reached the top of the bridge before sunset and he stood and just waited there until \u2014 it happened to be a clear day, no fog \u2014 and he was able to see the sun sink into the Pacific.\u00a0 Then he continued \u2014 it was long after dark when he got across the bridge to the other side.\u00a0 And he took a ferry boat from Sausalito.\u00a0 They had a boat that would take him back to San Francisco, or Oakland.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know which.\u00a0 But he, he took \u2014 he walked across that bridge and saw the sun go into the ocean and continued on across and rode a boat back to \u2014 and he was very late getting home, you know, to Oakland.\u00a0 And his older sister and John were very worried about him.\u00a0 They kind of scolded him a little bit.”<\/p>\n
“\u2026he had one of the \u2014 I think they sold a ticket for ninety or a hundred dollars from coast to coast.\u00a0 And he left the east \u2014 he left Wakeman and went there and then he came back.\u00a0 He got down to \u2014 on that trip, he left there shortly after Christmas and arrived in Los Angeles and attended the Rose Bowl parade in Pasadena.\u00a0 And I think he \u2014 I don\u2019t know whether he had tickets to the football game or not.\u00a0 But anyway, he saw the Rose Bowl Parade on that trip.\u00a0 And then he headed back.”<\/p>\n
“He headed back toward the east by way, on the, it would be the Missouri-Pacific I\u2019m pretty sure, into New Orleans.\u00a0 And that was a pretty \u2014 I don\u2019t know how long that took him.\u00a0 Must have been 36 hours or 48, whatever it was.\u00a0 He got back to New Orleans.”<\/p>\n
“He made a stop over and saw the Hoover Dam and an airplane there was so much for a trip over there.\u00a0 Today, I cannot tell you for sure.\u00a0 But I do know that he did visit the Hoover Dam and had an airplane ride up over the reservoir, the lake there.\u00a0 [It seems likely that he took a train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and that was how he saw the Dam, called Boulder Dam at that point.\u00a0 It was just opened to tours in 1937 and while I would have thought he would want to see the dam itself, the memory was of the flight he took.]\u00a0 And then he continued on to New Orleans.\u00a0 And at New Orleans he spent several days there visiting different places.\u00a0 An old battle \u2014 where the last battle was fought after the war was over.\u00a0 And he described the living, the live oak trees which I was not too familiar with.\u00a0 I said, \u201cWell, aren\u2019t all oak trees live oak?\u201d\u00a0 And, \u201cWhy no,\u201d he said, \u201cthese don\u2019t lose any leaves.\u00a0 They stay year round.\u201d\u00a0 New leaves come out and push the old ones off sometimes, but there \u2014 he explained it to me.\u00a0 And then from there \u2014 I think he headed back from New Orleans to Chicago, and on home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are many reasons we travel and our ancestors traveled.\u00a0 I have traveled for work, for pleasure (vacation) and for other pleasure (genealogy research).\u00a0 And of course I have moved my residence a number of times over the years, some …<\/p>\n