Did you every take a summer road trip with friends or familly? Where did you go. Back in the mid 1970's, my friend and

[ballardgirl]

24. In the early 1970's

My boyfriend at the time and I went on a road trip east across Washington and down into Southern Idaho, my birthplace, then visited Jackson, Wyoming and spent a couple nights in Yellowstone. Met my first jack Mormon in a bar there. It was October and there was some snowfall. We went from there through Utah - saw the Great Salt Lake. Spent the night in Brigham City and marveled at all the wild, drinking teenagers. From there we drove across Nevada. We had to spend the night at a funky motel in Winnemucca because there was a wild thunderstorm. These were drinking days for me. I had wine in a cooler and dipped into it during the scary wind/rainstorms. We agreed that he would drive and I would look out for danger. Ha! From there we drove through Reno - I did not like it, so we went over to Lake Tahoe where we spent a night or two. Across to Sacramento. We did some camping in California and saw part of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's running fence. Did the tourist thing in San Francisco and more camping on the Oregon Coast. Then, back home to Western Washington.

I'm sure there is more I am forgetting and too lazy to pull out the physical photos.

An earlier trip was with a boyfriend who was dodging the draft. We night drove the 101 and ended up in LA. He was a musician and got to spend time at places like The Troubadour. Lots of people like CSN. Joni Mitchell, etc hung out there but I was not yet 21 and had a job. I ended up flying home on my first ever plane trip.