Tag: road trip

• Vacation Needed!

  “Hey, Mom, we need to talk. These last few weeks have been very different. You and Mim went away on vacation and you didn’t take me along. Instead you sent me away to stay with a couple different friends. Why did you do that? I don’t understand. Why did you go on vacation?” Floey looked…

  Marian

  August 7, 2019

  Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  conversation with Floey, country church, family friends, getting stuck, God’s protection, Golden Valley Church, Hettinger, Howe Hereford Ranch, Howe Herefords, North Dakota, picnic, road trip, South Dakota, stuck in the mud, Teddy Roosevelt National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Tip Top Motel, vacation, wedding

• Mom’s Big Adventure: A Road Trip to California in 1934

  On August 19, 1934, in the heart of the Great Depression, three girlfriends started out on a road trip to California – Elsie Kenseth (my mom), Clarice Jarlsberg, and Eleanor Gilberts – three single young women in their mid-twenties who had grown up together in Cambridge. Within a couple years they would all be married…

  Marian

  June 23, 2015

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  1934, adventurer, Adventures in Hospitality, adventurous, big adventure, California, California Adventure, car trouble, Carl Korth, Clarice Jarlsberg, Clarice Vasby, Eleanor Gilberts, Eleanor Jarlsberg, Elsie Kenseth, Elsie Korth, General Delivery, Great Depression, Hilda Kenseth, Madison General Hospital, Model A Coupe, Model A Ford, new tire, road trip, Road Trip to California, summer adventure