Calling all Geezers
I'm a geezer too just a yungin though. Watching a bit on the history channel about early roads and vehicles, in the US. I remember redding a long time back about the adventures of Eisenhower and an a...
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up2nogood wrote:so they did not mind her being in the navy with all the sailors but they did mind her driving across country with only 2 of them okFrancesca Knowles wrote:
Here's my Family Favorite "road trip" story:
My Mother and Father met while both were in the Navy during WWII. At the end of the war both were mustered out in California, which is where they decided they'd marry.
But how to break it to Mom's folks in New Jersey? Drive back there, knock on the door, and tell 'em, of course!
They and another ex-sailor friend piled into an old open car with tents/blankets etc., not to mention a five gallon can of used motor oil which they replenished at regular intervals from gas stations' used oil tanks along the way. This last because the car burned so much oil they had to stop/add more every fifty miles or so...
Two weeks after setting out, they were in Haddonfield, New Jersey. My unsuspecting Grandparents were so scandalized that Mom had traveled cross country with two ex-sailors that they told her she'd better marry one of them, and they didn't even care which one! :B
Nice story .
