Five Broads in a Buick 9-26

A trip we made out West in 1978

9-26-78:  Today we were up early and headed down to old Mexico (Mary and Russ Epperly lived in San Diego) It wasn't as dirty as everyone has always led us to believe.  We got some good bargains we felt and ate lunch at a restaurant with loads of atmosphere.  It was downstairs, a fountain in the foyer.  Paper flowers decorated the ceiling and old photographs in gorgeous frames decorated the walls.  It even had strolling musicians.
     Back to Mary's in the early afternoon where we again lazed around.  After supper, we dressed up a little and went to the Harbor Island Sheraton to hear the Guadalahara National Philharmonic, a tremendously good all girl band.  They had an excellent banjo player.
9-27:  We left Mary Lou's at 7:30 a.m. on our way to Blythe and Mary came with us.  We stopped at El Centro, California for breakfast.  Judy and Norma had a Mexican breakfast while the other Gringos ate American food.
      Our parents had bought a motor home when Dad retired after traveling around for a couple of years, they bought a mobile home and settled at a place out in the desert on the Colorado River  called  Lost Lake Mobile Home Park)  We arrived at Mother and Dad's a little before 1:00.  They have done a lot of work on their trailer and it is really lovely.  Aunt Liz came down and shortly thereafter Russ Epperly, who had been in Yuma, came in.  The party started and never stopped.  One of the neighbors had caught some catfish and we had a fish fry.
     Judy, Norma, Berta and Marge all stayed at Aunt Marys mobile home and its really nice - very spacious (Aunt Mary and Uncle Ed lived in San Clemente and had this place at Lost Lake)  
    We went over to 'our place' about 7:30 and Mom and Dad and the Epperlys followed us over and the party continued. (Russ and Mother were great story tellers and they kept telling one story after another)  Everyone left about 10:00 and the four of us went immediately to sleep.
9-28:  Marge got up about 7, and she and Dad went into Blythe to have the car worked on.  It's been missing.  The problem was points and plugs and a cracked distributor cap.  While they were waiting, Dad took Marge out for breakfast and while they were eating a friend came over and talked to them.  Dad never introduced them so the words probably out that he was having lunch with some young chick.
      Mary Lou and Russ left about 10:30.  She was really a good hostess and we had a good time.
      Judy and Mother went into Parker to the store and while they were gone, Georgie Molloy, a friend of Carol and Don's from Pittsburgh came by.  He had been visiting a girl friend in Phoenix and came over to see the folks.  Dad took Georgie down to Vidal Junction where there is a real Western saloon owned by an Indian Princess.  He had taken us there the night before.
      In the evening we went to a pot luck that the park has monthly and it was very humid.  About 105 degrees and we all thought the humidity was the same.
9-29:  We left Lost Lake at 8:00 a.m. heading home.  Berta called home last night and Henri couldn't believe she'd been gone five days and only got to Blythe. (Berta lived in San Bernadino)