The Road Trip

For Naomi, life was beginning to get exciting in the fall of 1952... At the age of 25 , a widow and the mother of two. So you pack up your 1949 Dodge and off to Alaska you go... Free land awaits those brave souls who will show. Interstates had not been created back in that day... And there were no motels at which to stay. With five hundred dollars cash and two boys to raise... Every mile became an adventure with praise. Sometimes sleeping in the Dodge and drinking from a stream... A young widow and her sons living the early American dream. The Mississippi and the Missouri they crossed them too.. And the majesty of the Rockies they all three knew. They made it to Spokane from Pennsylvania and that's as far as they could go... But the deep adventure they had only they could know. Naomi is in her eighties now and doing well... And the adventures she has had she loves to tell. God has smiled upon her and given her a wonderful life... She's been a daughter, a sister, a great-grandmother and an adventuring wife. In the fall of ' 52 America was different than it is now... And she and her two boys can now reflect on the how. From Pennsylvania to Washington, the goal was so close... But a life time of adventure she had traveling from coast to coast. The Alaskan dream still burns in her heart... If she just could come up with five hundred dollars, she's ready to depart. TK<><