Trip to Mexico

We took some interesting trips in 1958, with Dean and Marva Skinner, the best friends we ever had.   It was hard to be away and I wonder now how we did it.  We went to Mexico for three weeks.  We had a new Buick and drove clear to Mexico City. We laughed and told jokes every day.  The night we stayed at Mazatlan we told the desk clerk we wanted two rooms.  He tried to tell us we wanted one room with two beds.  He spoke only Spanish to us.  We couldn’t make him understand so we ask to see the room.  Dean took one look and said, “We can’t share this room, there isn’t even a door on the bathroom.  The clerk started to laugh and said that is the closet.  He spoke perfect English. We ask him to show us the town and he rode with us.  We saw a funeral with everyone dressed in black and walking behind the coffin.  We saw inside one home and did not realize how so many people, could live in such a small area.  We saw poverty that I could not imagine.   

     The next day we went deep sea fishing.  It was a big disappointment. It cost a fortune and never even had a bite.  When we returned to the dock, we saw the fish other boats, had brought in.  Jess and Dean were both sea sick.  That was the first time I had ever seen any one turn green but they both did.   

     At Guadalajara. the brakes went out of the car.  Since it was a new car they didn’t have any parts to repair it.  We had to wait two days.  We had a mountain pass to go over and the garage man told us not to go before noon.  We were anxious to get on our way, so we left early.  We had only driven an hour when the fog was so thick we had to stop.  We sat by the side of the road and played pinochle .  Finally a car came from the other way and we decided if he could drive in the fog so could we.  We had only driven a hundred yards and we were out of the fog.   We saw ruins, bull fights and local things but we were all  missing our kids and wanted to go home.  The thing that tasted best when we got back to US. was milk.

     Viola Erickson stayed with the kids and Tom was really sick while we were gone.  Steve and Lee did all the chicken chores before and after school. Sam Kennigton was suppose to gather eggs in the daytime.  One day he got drunk and didn't gather the eggs and the kids had a horrible mess