More Vacation Trips

There were also weekend trips or simply daytime excursions that we made with the girls. Included were visits to Placerville where a cousin of Jean’s mother lived (first she and her husband lived in a home somewhat on the outskirts of Placerville, later after her husband died she was in some sort of nursing home in Placerville itself). I seem to remember we had a meal or two at their home; it must have been when the girls were quite small.

Along the coast we visited the house at Sea Ranch that Frank and Marion West had; on at least one occasion we stayed overnight.

Then there was the trip to Fort Bragg and the ride on the “Skunk”Train to Willits and back.

We also made trip to the Santa Cruz area and I believe we spent a week’s vacation once in a rented cabin near Felton. On this or some other trip we visited the Wilsons from whom we had purchased 411 Bonnie Drive — they had bought a home in the area.

And there were visits to the beach at Santa Cruz. Once we spent a vacation week at the home of a Margaret Johnson, a longtime acquaintance of Jean’s. She was a maiden lady, a schoolteacher I believe, and she offered us to stay there while she was off on a trip somewhere. She lived close to the beach south of Santa Cruz.

Then there was the vacation week we spent at a cabin that belonged, or had belonged, to Ray’s brother Ralph from Fresno. I say had because when we were at the cabin Ralph may have already died and the cabin belonged to Marie and his sons. I never met Ralph — I believe I met Ray’s brother Al once and of course we met Fred several times.