A 2 month vacation for Nina, Howard, Michael, Benjamin and Daniel Barsky (Marea not yet born)... towing an Airstream Trailer, eastward across the United States, north into Canada, then westward all the way to the west coast of Canada, then south down the US western coast back to Los Angeles. June 30, to September 3, 1969. 64 days, 12,220 miles.


Rockies, Wyoming. Altitude 11,000 ft

DAY 17

Wednesday, 7/16/69

Apollo 11 blasts off at 8:15 a.m. Hear all on trailer radio. Howard and Mike left early to check our car at an International Harvester dealer. Mrs. Sargent (Karen) took the other boys and me to a street art fair near University of Michigan. Great sculpture, ceramic pieces, and paintings. Met Howard and Mike there and just too damn hot and muggy to walk much longer. Left Ann Arbor in early afternoon...just beat. No wind and can’t believe this weather. Went to Dearborn to the Henry Ford Museum...










eight acres of indoor walking. No air conditioning. So much to see but went through faster than if a cooler day. Ate dinner in park in Dearborn. Did washing also and drove into Toledo to the first big supermarket parking lot we could find and bed...hot and beat!

7/16/69, Toledo, Ohio, Market Parking Lot
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