Journaling:

We left Ellsworth AFB on the 23rd of October, we driving to Minneapolis and stopping at the Schindler Girls for three nights. The Schindler Girls were Afra, Hedwig and Eleanor Schindler, Moms three single aunts. I had at best a months experience walking. You know the time when you wobble side to side and your balance isnt spot on, adults gasp and you laugh when you land on your butt that is, until you realize the adults think youre supposed to hurt. Well, I wobbled and grabbed a lamp on a table and tumbled into the wall creating a childs fist sized hole. Mom was horrified. Her daughter had punched a hole in the revered Schindler Girls wall. We all went to bed that night, mom still horrified, dad, saying, well stuff happens.
When we awoke the next morning the hole in the wall had magically disappeared. According to mom, it looked like nothing happened. That was the way of The Schindler Girls. They never told mom how the wall was repaired, and she never asked. It just wasnt done. On the other hand, as an adult, I had no qualms about asking, when I had the opportunity to meet the two younger Schindler Girls. Afra, the oldest had died my senior year in high school. I told the story I had heard my entire life they both laughed and filled me in. They had called one of their male friends and he came over late that night and repaired the wall. Now that is a true friend.

From the Schindler Girls, we drove to Beloit, Wisconsin staying with Moms sister Betty. Prior to leaving Ellsworth AFB Mom and Dad had been in contact with her Uncle Walter Richardson. Walter had set up a deal with a car dealer he knew for Mom and Dad to trade in the Mercury Coupe for a brand new 1957 Ford Country Sedan.
Thirty-eight hours after leaving Beloit we arrived in Scarsdale, New York, at Grandma Gilchrests house. We spent 10 days at Grandma Gilchrests before heading back to the West Coast.

This trip would be the first time I would met my Uncle Don and my Godmother, Great Aunt Loretta.


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