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Article: Memories of Summer: Our Readers Revisit Vacations Past
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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My parents were 18-year-old Washingtonians when they married in
1962. A decade and four children later, they decided we needed more
exposure to the United States and embarked on a series of cross-
country trips, each time venturing farther and farther west. The
first year, we crammed into an orange VW bus and drove to
Indianapolis to visit my father's childhood friend. A year or so
later, we packed up again, this time to Bismarck, N.D., where my
parents had friends.
I remember flashes of events: the disappointing stench of the
Great Salt Lake and the soaring beauty of Crazy Horse Memorial; the
donkeys we rode into the Grand Canyon and our fear of falling off
the edge of the world; the ...