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She praise my soul the king of you.
In30, Lords of all hopefulness, Lordr of all joy.
Number 32, morning has broken.
Botho by Dorothy Han.
Howmony harmony part optional and sang with the gentle float.
Now something a bit more live in Lee this time.
For it is getting a bit boring, you must say down there in the cold.
I'm gonna sing Zena, Za, Za, Za come't you hear, music, play.
Which is a song that I got from Max when I was there, it's a very lively song. And it's.
Okay, I hope you enjoy it. Here we go.1,2,1,2,3. Zenena, Zna, Zena, Zena can't hear the music playing in.
The city square.
Zena, z, then.
With the music playing in.
The city square.
It's like. it's not quite as live as when they're screaming it. Hiin't my sister, but.
I really like it in this way because I'm not quite as lively and don't quite jump around as much as my sister. I'm sorry she talks so long, but she was trying to find the music at the same time. Okay, here we go,1,2,3, Santa can't with the music playing.
Zana, then, then.
I on music playing.
This is dedicated to my dad.
Oh, that's right, yeah.
John came in to meet me.
John came in and met me at lunchtime that day because we hit the afternoon off that's right.
And Sue had taken all the children to a place called ear lecturetures, which is a fun there.
 playground area for children in park, which they just simply enjoyed tremendously Sue was very, very kind to them I'm sure she took them on everything that was able to be gone on up or down round about and all the rest of it but.
Anyway, when John met me at lunchtime as I went out to meet him, he was talking to a lady.
Who had come rushing up to him when she'd seen our New Zealand flags.
I turned out her name was Helen Peterson, and she was a part so Indian lady and was in charge of the.
Breau of Indian Affairs here in Denver.
Well, she'd rushed up to on because she'd seen the flag and she said, oh, you're from New Zealand. she said, I've just met someone from New Zealand. and she said I've been the other weekend with him or something. She said it was Bishop Benner. did we know him, or said, yes, of course, we don't know him personally, of course, but everybody knows of Bishop Benner Oh, she said such a charming man and was delighted about having met him.
And oh, she was so thrilled. And shes.
that we were from New Zealand and how nice he'd been that she saidHow about coming to lunch with me so she said we're going to the top of the Rockies which is a really fabulous restaurant.
Right on the 30th floor of a very large building in Denver and naturally overlooks the Rockies. So we all went up to the top of the Rockies for lunch. A little thing that happened, which we thought was quite funny, was to get up to the top of this really fabulous restaurant where they had fabulous food.
And Hill ordered a hander, a typically American thing to do. it really yeah.
Take some beating.
Anyway, lunch didn't finished till somewhere around 430 we had a great time with her actually why she was outside the Hilton Hotel was she was meeting two women who were at the conference, that's why she got sort of carried away the fact that I was at the conference and she was meeting two women both of whom were lawyers from out of state and dealt with Indian affairffs and property and land problems and so on in other states and whom shed known for many years and had had dealings with and so we all had lunch at the Do of the Rockies.
Well I went back to the hotel at about five and John went on, he was going out for dinner with all these artists and so on again.
I went back to the hotel because that evening we were going out to.
And.
The.
Most of the conference had to be broken up into smaller sections zones too many people to go to any one place at one time and the particular dinner tour that I was to go on was to a place called Heritage Square.
Which was.
Oh I suppose about three quarters of an hour out of town and.
.
That's right.
Evening 200.
And we they took us in a bus out to this heritage square, which is a wild West town, completely all restored and so on, and there's an opera house there and you have dinner and there's a.
A musical show in the evening.
Which was very well done, it started with old time movies and then they had the musical, which was Buffalo Bill.
And then they had a Vville act as well so it went on to something like half past to1 and it was a fairly late night but was very good fun and then we all went back to the hotel Joan as I said went out for dinner with these friends and so on I think they all went off to town after dinner and went to some folk music place and had cheesecake.
On the Wednesday, the 28th, the fourth day of the conference was the big day for voting, we had reports of United Nations and immediately hurt our fellowship.
Awards, and then we had the voting.
And then we hit a free.
 so that evening I didn't participate in the scheduled program because they were going down to Colorado Springs to the Flying W Ranch, which we had already been to or the Philharmononic Orchestra.
Concert so I went home after the midday after the voting and to Sue and Henry's and we had a lovely evening meal altogether that was the first time I'd met Henry and he really is an absolute appeared he's got just such a sense of humor I that all he just marvelous fan and they live in a very large condomonium which is in a very nice part of Denver.
The children had played and Rachel had gone to the movies in the afternoon with Julie, the little girl had a sleeper evening.
And.
That was that we spent the night there.
And in the morning I went into the final session.
On the Thursday, which covered everything else that hadn't been gathered. And that night, of course, was the.
So to dinner.
Banquet, which everyone was all under the one roof, it was at a place downtown conference center.
AndThe dinner was very well run, very, very nice indeed, and they had dogs on every table, international dogs from every country on every table of which they had little.
You knowOne person at the table had a star underneath their coffee cup or something or other and mine was the one and I won this little doll, which I think is from Switzerland somewhere which Rachel of course is delighted with but I had su people at my table that night, unfortunately Bly been wasn't feeling too well.
But they seem to be able to revive her enough to attend the conference, the banquet dinner.
And.
Oh, that's right. that afternoon, John who picked me up.
Por to the dinner and we went to the Museum of Natural History at Denver, which is a very famous one because they have particularly nice.
Animals and things there.
And they had a new Indian display, which was very, very good.
 three dimensional things they do here which are extremely good and.
Its a good cover of.
Of Indians throughout the upper part of the United States.
So they dropped me back at the hotel for the dinner at night and we all went off.
 after that well after the dinner we came back to one of the girls' rooms and there was partylike atmosphere all around actually the Australians had been having so many parties that they were told they went to have anymore so the best thing to do was move down to the next floor and have them on the New Zealand girls rooms which they did John came back to the hotel and joined him with the priority.
And I was quite sad to say goodbye to the girls that night, really.
Most of them were heading off the next day and.
So that was the end of the conference which was a pretty successful, very well organised, the thing that I think probably one of the things that intrigued me most was.
The fact that.
There was these women there that were incredibly world dressed we just couldn't get over the clothes, they must have just had about 10 hat boxes with them, they actually wore hats most of the time and they had mess of jewelry and fabulous clothes.
And of course, it turned out that they were from Iran and all the Arab countries and they certainly were theBre women at the conference.
They were also very outspoken, they seem to be getting their message across pretty well.
And.
I think the whole thing.
The main thing that I gained from the conference was the fact that.
Ab.
We must work for, you know the better amount of people in other countries that it is.
Definitely an international world that we must all work together.
And not concentrate so much on our own home areas, but that we must think internationally, it's so important the world is so small now.
 we must work for the status of women and children throughout the world.
And.
It's, it's.
Difficult to explain the effect an international conference has on you, but it's.
It's something that I feel that if people can possibly go to, they must to get this international feeling that just broadens your horizons so much further than your own backyardard, which you know a.
I know it was very important.
It was such a very small world nuts.
First running out of resources and yet there are so many people, so a choice off from so many of our countries.
It was interesting.
To listen to the report the woman from the United Nations.
.
Oh, no, it was during the conference, E.
And it was.
Oh Thornman from the United Nations and she had been to the opening of the President Carter had opened something at the White House the day before and she had been there and he was saying how.
Deprived in so many other respects the children of the United States are in so many social ways and that they have too much television and all these other things that one feels that they come from a country of great effluence, which is so true but they are so deprived in so many other respects and that one should look more carefully at this they.
Other angles of things.
Which was quite interesting, I think, something that we should all be more conscious of.
Anyway, so that was the conference and.
It was naturally a great deal more, but I.
You, can't explain it all on the tape, of course.
So we didn't finish up at the parties of the Hilton O D pretty late that night.
On the Friday we had a very leisurely time Friday, the 30th of June at S we.
Cleaaned up and chatted with Sue and little Julie was going off to summer camp, so Sue had to take her up into the mountains that day, so we went off to see the.
The min and Nba, which was a very interesting experience. Unfortunately, they were doing the annual.
 stock take and so the actual coins went flying through the machines, however we were able to see how it all worked and went.
So some go Boion and all the rest of that.
And.
That night there train we took the children to McDonald's for dinner which of course they always think is pretty good and Henry and Sue took John and I to a place called Brook's Cafe, which is a very, very quaint restaurant it was an old gas stations been converted into a restaurant and it's unique in that it's operated completely by solar energy.
And just after we arrived in the States here, they had a day called Sunday, which was.
A special day for solar energy and the.
and saving of other energies and on that particular day President Carter had eaten at this restaurant because of its unique capacity for operating completely under the.
Under solar power, fabulous restaurant thoroughly enjoyed that night but had a great time as swimmingene really really great fun.
And one of Henry's daughters, Henry has been married before and he has five children from the previous marriage and Katie, one of his twin daughters babysit.
For us that night, she's a sweet girl, actually himley kids are just sweet other the whole familys really great family, they don't live far away and so they visit.
Very regularly on the Saturday seventh the of July and on a month gone by time justice going so fast, as you can see, I have great difficulty in coping with the correspondence.
It really is quite impossible, it's hard to explain but living in a camper once.
You know sort of the kids are up with a sort of time of course we're travelling a lot during the day we're seeing them a lot during the day it takes me all my time to keep the diary up to date and by the time nighttime comes because we don't stay in camping grounds we can't hook up and it runs our batteries too flat to use the electricity so for the lights so you know we're unable to right in the evenings so it's very difficult really to get mail away.
On Saturday Henry who's really such a sweet he absolutely insisted Beverly Bennettt hadn't been feeling too well during the conference, she'd I think been struggling a bit with the altitude it wasn't too bad for us because we'd been around the area for a while but the girls that just flew in they didn't notice that we were at 6,000 feet and it seemed to Beverly was pretty exhausted, she'd been working terribly hard up towards the conference and I think it had her but so she wasn't feeling really like going on.
They had a tour down to the Air Force basease on the Saturday but it meant sort of a whole day on upon a bus and stuff so we decided we'd run her down there because we hoped that she really could see it and she was contemplating not going and been you know in her area of staying last work we felt we really wanted her to see it so Henry absolutely insisted that we took us Mer well Beverly and Anne Anne came to we delighted to see such a nice girl all up I'm sure so we travelled down to,
The two Colorado Spring a Le Force base and great luxury in the Merceeddes bins.
And we talked Bly and and around Venatou and Colorado Springs as well, we got back about 730 that night and so and Henry were going out for dinner so they shot off.
We just had a quiet night.
On Sunday.
And.
Oh, let's right on Sunday morning we were up very early because Helen Petererson, the lady whom we'd meet outside the Hilton Hotel.
So Indian Wo had invited us for breakfast and wanted us there at8 o'clock so it was on one almighty dash to get there by eight and of course we were treated to a fabulous breakfast of pancakes and sausages and scrambled eggs and goodness knows what and she'd invited some Nevervaho people around for breakfast as well the their name was they were full blooded Nevervaho Indians and they had two children and most interesting family.
To have breakfast with us and chair, they were getting ready for a power on their area, so it was great excitement planning for that.
This is when they all wear their national costumes and all get together for their Indian.
Affairs.
Now, Helen, marvel woman, she really is a woman's lover affair before her time, has had a great deal to do with the woman in politics in this particular city and has been.
Involve with politics of here in Denver she I suppose would be you 55 and she had a little granddaughter whom she hadn't run for breakfast too so that she could play with Rachel she was the same major as Rachel.
And Helen collects Indian jewelry, well, we had seen masses of Indian jewelry, but she had the most incredible collection.
That she showed us, she collects it for two reasons that it's an investment and she hopes one day when she retires from her professional life to probably trade and sell and perhaps a boutique or something having and jewelry so in the meantime she's getting the pleasure from it but it's also a good investment they have these blossom necklaces which are very.
Very large and quite cumbersome, very, very expensive full of turquoise and silver. And she had many of these. She actually gave me a lovely turquoise ring.
As a present, which was very very s.
She took us all over town, took the kids swimming, took us out for lunch, and took us to Molly Bram's house, which was fascinating and quite interesting.
AndMolly Brown, of course, is the now infamous, unthinkkable Molly Brown, she was actually a passenger on the Titanic.
And has this very ostentatious house which has been restored in Denver We really were terribly sad to say goodbye to Helen, She wants to come down to New Zealand and she wants to bring with her.
A group of Indian children, she thinks that they would enjoy meeting Maori children and that they if she feels they cultures have a lot.
And Carmen, actually, she enlightened us on many aspects of the Indian.
Traditions and the way that things have happened in the United States with the Indians are one is inclined to feel that they've been terribly badly done by but you know she's an Indian herself and she sees things in a completely different light and the very very loving and kind person, very understanding and has done I think a great deal for the Indians herself and really doesn't think they've had such a bad deal at all, she said they're very wealthy, they have a lands that they now have rich in minerals that they out.
Taxes of course in this country, Indians pay no tax all, they pay money to their own tribes or the to assist with the running of their own tribes, but they do not pay any taxes as the Americans do that's providing, of course they're on a reservation and so on.
And the Americans here paid incredible amounts of property tax, you know, just what we would call an average home where we pay you know about $160 in rates a year, they pay property tax every year and it's often $1,500 is seems to be you know a regular amount that they might be expected to pay which is pretty steep every year just for the privilege of owning your own house, it doesn't really encourage you to do so.
Then after we left her, we went round to Robs, he was having another party barbecue and.
He had yet another girlfriend who her name happened to be Sharon.
And we had a lovely evening with them and once again a very sad goodbye because Rob was a great guy, he's young and he's a great fan.
And he was just terribly kind to us, we really.
Already to feel very sad, especially know meeting people was wonderful, we just can't meet enough people they're also great, but you know, it really is very very difficult to part with them.
Well, now we're on to July Monday the 3 and I see its Anna of Re's birthday and as I.
Here in my letters, these tapes seem to get around heavy birthday day and I would.
And know that your little finger has stuck back on bitter mother wrote and told me that you' merely lost a finger and Rachel and Meham were aha to hear such a gory tale with great detail and I had to read it three times to them.
about your finger and what happened to it and since of course I've heard from Jocelyn that Sos nearly lost a foot and Jon's lost, I better not say what and and things are not going to well the reads at the moment and I'm very, very sad that I was unable to be there to help you move Jo I can I know what a hell of a lot of stuff you've got and that much time it'll take you to move and I'm very sorry that I'm not there too.
Be of help to you because I thoroughly enjoyed the last move really thank God when it was all over, but it was fun.
You always seem to find.
You always seem to move when some great hessleon, unfortunately this one.
Didn't sound as pleasurable as the last.
Anyway.
You're feeling better to us, I've really been quite concerned about him.
Right, so that's Anna's birthday.
Oh we were still up soon in Henry yes that's right, of course3rd of July we were busy preparing for the 4 of July.
And.
Sue and Henry were having whole family over and of course Henry's got five children and hundreds of relatives and Julie of course, a little better.
Who's little girl?
And we had a.
Qut day, but Sue was frantically preparing for the arrival because not only did she have all the family coming on the4 of July, but Henry's mother was arriving from.
Miami, that day.
And his, her sister, Henry's aunt Sylvia, the grandmother as Florra. and the aunt of Sylvia, Well they were just.
Priceless, just love them. Flora was 75, if you please. And so the 4 of July was not only the 4 of July, but it was also grandma's 75th birthday celebration, well.
 never seen such a young  Sydney five year old in all she was so fit she was just fit as aboutque.
Arow of the be and an epiloote scream.
They of course are all them as soon as I heard their voices like just about crack up it was real untouchable stuff they said they got good boy and th0 boy and they're Jewish of course and they're from the Bronx and New York and one never forgets that accent it's really just.
Unreal.
They flew in from Miami and we had a brief formal dinner with them that night and it was really great fun.
This is great.
Mother of Henry or grandma, as they will call her, is an absolute darling her.
We had a lovely evening and that night we managed to kick the kids off the water bed in the Ruber room and John and I had our first experience at sleeping on a water bed, everybody has water beds here they're very very popular and fight ch.
Just might bring one home.'re They're okay, except if somebody else thats out a beard. It's like a tidal wave.
Very comfortable, though, if I think of you that a or knee a or something, it'll be most comfortable to sleep on.
Lava.
So the 4th of July came around, well the kids all went swimming because Su Henry's condominium of course has a magnificent swimming pool and a fabulous recreation area and they have lounges and everything and anybody that's own one of the condominiums is the title to have the lounge area which is very large for parties or whatever, they've got you know recreation room with all sorts of bicycles and garden knows what.
And.
So we prepared all day for dad and then we went round to Henry's children's house in the afternoon spent the afternoon with the girls they were making the birthday cake for grandma, we had to make two in the end because people kept arriving and in the end there was 26 for dinner or something so they made a carrot cake, which is beautiful, really nice and we had to put 75 candles on other took all afternoon.
And.
The.
Then we all went round back to Su and Henry's for the big party and of course they had the girls, the daughters had all gone round in the afternoon and prepared the house with streamers, red white and blue streamers and great big balls, red white and blue, you know, great paper things and Henry of course there was an absolutely.
Honey had on his red white and blue shirt and a boater hat with the red white and blue strips, and it was all terribly, terribly American and naturally fireworks and traditional food, love American food. they eat all their dead wouldn't like, and of course they eat all their fruit with their main courses, but I quite enjoy it.
And.
In the morning it was quite fun because Henry's oldest son Daniel works part time on a radio station which is just haunt here at Boulder and he announced that he would like to wish his grandmother a very happy 75th birthday over the radio so everybody was quite beside themselves with this big announcement.
Their family really were a great friend. they really have the grandmother on, you know, they, they say things to her, like the terrific sense of humor, these Jewish people from the Bronx, and they say, what grandmother do in a 75th year. Come on round the table and they all go round the table saying what grandmother should do and the poor thing was doing everything from hang gl to scuba dying and goodness knows what she takes it all in great heart and and laugh she's really quite a scream. she goes the movies all the time. So she knows everything that's going on and it' quite up to day.
Well, so we set off fireworks very late into the night that night, the children thoroughly enjoyed it, the fireworks wasn made magnificent, a huge big fireworks and was really fun.
And.
Wednesday the fifth we packed up and once ago we had to say goodbye, we were so sad to leave so and Henry because they were just so kind to us and.
We just had so much fun with them they were just such great value.
And they were all for pecking up and coming on a tour too, we called him to say goodbye to Sue Henry Z's daughter and we moved on to Boulder and to Este's National Park.
Was great to be in the Rockies after all the desert, you know.
It was really nice to be sort of up on the cooler air, although the altitude that the have its effect.
Ne particular.
Da over that daym, the next, we crossed three ranges of mountains well over 12000 feet. And it really, you feel quite strange, especially going up and down that often, although you never dropped below about 6000 feet.
It's really high. And you just notice the lack of air.
Well, the Rockies are fabulous, just beautiful. They really are beautiful. We travelled on through them down to a place called at Grraamby then on to Georgetown and through the I and heart tunnelun.
We spent the night at a place called Dll London.
And.
Yeah, yeah in the middle of the Rockies. there's a train ride and we went planning to go on up with the next thing, Rachel and madeland tearing round on this train, absolutely free. I can't remember how much it cost to go on up was a couple of dollars or something. but they chatted up the driver. and he took them on a free ride around the Rockies. The ski resort here. It's just fantastic the sophistication of skiing in this country just puts our ski slopes to shame. It's just fantastic beautiful slopes because they're everywhere.
On Thursday the  sixth, we went on up to Vail, which is a beautiful ski was all really fantastic.
In Valil and Aspen, which I I would think are probably the most elite skiing areas around mean not allowed to advertise at all, which is quite unusual in this country there have billboards everywhere and enormous signs for hotels and things there are no signs on the hotels there are no signs anywhere there aren't even any sort of.
Large.
Direction, well there's direction signs, you know road signs, but usually the hotels have enormous.
Signs out showing you where they are and so on, there's nothing and so these areas are kept just beautifully natural and all the building in this country is really fantastic.
The architecture really has.
Such a natural look about it. it always fits into the area beautifully and.
 it's really.
And mind you, you can't buy a condominium in these areas below 100,000, they started 100,000 for one bedroom condominium, mind you your condominium.
You can take a chairlift from right outside the door and you can ski right back to that very door it's just unbelievable there cheerlos everywhere gondolas.
Cable trams who name it, they've caught it and the ski slopes are just there thousands of them.
.
Vale was particularly nice, beautiful summer resorts as well. all these places. then we went on to Aspen. Well Aspen is fantastic, just absolutely out of this world.
Tin raises was.
And the town of Esplan itself is just beautiful, it's all malled areas.
Brrick paving and all the shops a quaint and they've all been kept in a sort of an oldy worldy look and.
The clothes and the stuff sale was just exquisite.
 we just love epen.
If you were very wealthy, you could really have to die me life in places like those.
Moved on to Eagle. and then we backtracked a lidville and gra up because we'd.
Actually must going through aspen. So of back there bit anyway.
And.
Yeah, Aspen was the really the highlight of the area.
It's just beyond words, spend the whole day there.
 droveve on to Glenwood Springs and the evening Glenwood Springs are very large natural hot springs here, probably about the size of the opal or crystal strings and metame or probably a much higher direction.
Then we moved on to Grand Junction and spent the night.
Spent the night there outside of4,711 the 24 hour supermarket.
The seven levels didn't make up they're all 24 hours they' all over the countryside.
Anyway when we got there that's right we had written to Bvan Jack Shields I'm getting back and we just happened to discover then that the next on the Saturday night they were going to be only 60 miles away from where we were then so we couldn't resist we decided that we would go down to this place where they were going to be called Montrose so we.
The next morning we visited the Colorado National Monument.
Then went on down to Montros.
W we were it.
Grand Junction, We met a couple.
Steve and Jean Stills who actually came from Oxnard which is near Venura in California and they had an O  Volkswagen actually is similar to ours and we were chatting to them they'd been to Europe and so so theyre really nice they worked for Steve works for You of Christ and really nice guy and we planned to meet them later on which I shall mention later anyway so we went on down to Montrose to CBM Jack.
Yeah.
W, yeah, what do we do.
Yeah.
, that's right. we went swimming and so on. We spent the evening at a park there, and we went down to Black Canyon of the Guom National Monument and spent the night. The next morning, we toured that national monument and.
Looked around Montros and.
Did some shopping. Oh yes, we discovered Marmite, if you please, when we'd been in Dingga.
Sueward told us that Marite was available Rachel Mr Marite at something awful and Suward told us you could actually get it in the import sections of the larger supermarkets it's made in Canada at the very expense for a tiny Wineny jarts and Dora 50 or something but however it really made Rachel happy John bought a three jar it so she was delighted and then we went over to the Red Bar motel where Devvanjack would to be staying and waited for their arrival on that's where I got to.
Last tape and excuse me a minute.
Well, we explained to the lady at the motel that we were awaiting their arrival on so she said she wouldn't tell them that we were there and that we could.
Use the swimming pool afternoon so we had a very nice time by the pool.
And.
Well.
I think you heard it on the last day of their ride with great excitement, they had 22 kids with them.
And.
We went over to the swimminging pool. We didn't say anything. We just walked up to them. And Beverly looked at us and she said, I know you. Of course Jo was beard. It was hardly recognisable seven years since we've seen them.
And so with great joy we all said hi and so on and so forth and we spent the afternoon the rest of the afternoon by the pool and.
We all went out for dinner to the restaurant called the cameo, all 22 kids and A adults.
And they were at the end of their summer vacation tour that they take these children on.
And.
The kids had been playing baseball all the way along on the tour so this was their final night of baseball so we found Jack found a school ground where we could all go and play baseball and Rachel and Maitland had to join them for separate teams and play baseball too and and I.
Beverly and I were aboutfielding and so on and so forth but John had to pitch some balls which was really quite hilarious because of course these kids were all real baseball men and John's pitching wasn't up to match and the early said it was a good thing he was leaving town next morning however he managed to.
P some decent balls.
Anyway, we really had a marvelous time with them great fun was had by all and we decided we stayed with them till about 10 o'clock at night, they were wanting to get over very early start next morning because they were heading for Aspen and then on Denverver and flying back to Atlanta so we left there at about 1030 and the kids went to bed and John and I decided to head off.
We went on through to Jenssen, through Veral and Manila.
And.
2.
You big it too.
Oh, that's right. no, we lift.
Grand Junction and went over the Douglas Pass to the Dinosaur National Monument.
Yeah, we discovered we were in the wrong part of the park.
There is two parts to the dinosaur monument but was just the large area, which is designated dinosaur monument, which is just like any national park and then the.
The actual area where there all the bones are to be found and where there are stomach exccating. and you can go into a building in another part, which we didn't find until 1030 next morning in the heat of the day.
ItIt's on this place called Jensen.
So we went and saw you get little shuttle buses up to where the men are still excavating, but being Sunday they weren't actually working and fascinating though to see all the dinosaur bones.
And then we moved on through Vernal and Manila to Wyoming, which is dreadful it was just nothing Wyoming for hundreds of miles.
And until you get to Jackson, which is well.
 it' getting to there, but there's a few hundred miles in between, which is pretty dull and Im excitingcit actually way's got on bagaral except at Yellowstone.
We actually stopped up here for dinner that night and we were so eaten alive by mosquitoes that we just had to get back into the car and eat our dinner and the heat.
There was a place called Pineale, which is on the way up. And then we got to Jackson Hole, which is no hole, it's fabulous.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful tourist really nervous.
I got something.
We spent the night at the airport, I think we park at the airport that's right.
And these tourist towns are just hopping with life and funamine and things are doing.
They're really very, very beautiful.
We had breakfast for the guy from North Carolina that morning.
He was quite found he'd been cycling around country.
He'd done about a thousand miles on his bike and we left him.
We drove on through the Tetons, Tetons are great, really super beautiful, and we stopped at the South Gny Lake, which is.
 beautiful area, the trees and the lakes and the mountains, they've still got snow up that high are really very, very beautiful. and once again, the temperatures were.
Very comfortable.
We had lunch and spent the afternoon at Colder Bay Village which is part in the T Tos National Park and the museum there which has a very interesting numbers museums and it visitor centres of all the National parks that are very, very informative they all run film shows and they arrange as or talk to you and you can ask him questions in July and very, very informative and well organizedised we went through the John De Rockef F Juror.
The.
Memorial Park and strangely enough that very.
Just while we were driving through them, we were listening to a news broadcast and Rockef F who 72 was killed in a car accident, which was quite coincidental.
Then on up through to Yellowstone.
Lch.
Yeah, I spotted a moose, which was most interesting.
And.
 they supposed to be grizzly bears at the Yellowstone also, but I think they're probably a thing of the past. they've had so much trouble with them. They break into people's cars and tents and says well they do really they're very destructive but they've moved them they were so troublesome they've moved them mostly up into the mountain and so it's most unusual to see one in fact we spoke to a ranger who hadn't seen one in three years side doubt that there's much hope of th through a couple of days and seeing one but they have been able to.
Stop the damage because they' completely changed all the garbage cans in the area and very, very solid metal ones, which were almost impossible for humans to get into little layer bear.
Although itll be probably a more show, but they're very difficult to get into and we stayed the night at the canyon and it was quite funny because when we you woke up the next morning there was some people, we were packed outside some cabins illegally as usual and some people came out of the cabin who would met at the Colorado National Monument a few days before the Yodohakiwis.
It was a lightning storm that night.
No rain but plenty of lightning on Tuesday the 11th we set off from Well Canyon as a place with a yellowellowstone and that's where we'd stayed it's definitely the largest park that we've been and that's really almost hundreds of miles of roads and it's really very very beautiful.
The accommodation is exceptional, theres more tourists here than we've seen in the weather the road to chopper nose tail with trailers nowvies.
And.
The trailers are so enormous, actually the guy that we'd meet at Jackson Ho on his bike, he said it was really unbearable riding through Yellowstone because these campes are so enormous from the roads of more on American standards quite narrow that the trailers are so enormous that it's quite dangerous for riding a bike.
And.
No yeah, we checked out some of the volcanic activity, which is really really.
Beautiful, makes Roro look almost smy.
You know, they don't have Coke cans and bubing pools and which she to with beauty a little. We drove from Kenyon to the.
Roosevelt.
Tower to Roosevelt Tower and we took a hitchhike part of that way but the road was closed between Roosevelt Tower and Mammoth which is only the road was only closed but for three miles between and we couldn't get through and we thought the road might be open the next day but unfortunately it wasn't.
So we spent the afternoon there, we met some lot of people up there.
Had a pleasant day, and.
So that meant we had to return, which was a very, very long way back again.
We visited the South cauldron, and.
Theres walk around the volcanic areas and they're very, very beautiful.
And we were staying over the place.
At the Uniodine falls.
We left the fools early in the morning and backtracked right back to this place called Canyon that we'd been at the day before this as far back as we had to go to get the turn off again and then on to Norris and Madison.
All very, very pre areas and quite a bit of volcanic activity. And then we went down to see the old Fa form, which we waited 45 minutes to.
See it old and faithful and it finally blew. It's quite a sight. and I think the funniest thing is watching all these people waiting for it to go. they also sort start gathering and the next thing is hundreds of people.
All watching and they course they watch it last about three minutes and then they all buzz off and they different directions it's really quite amusing.
We had lunch there and moved on to further areas, it's a very vast area and wandered around all kinds of.
s and bubbbling pools and.
That night we went right back up to Mammoth which of course we'd only been four miles from the night before but hadtagon on that was an old army camp when Yellowstone was first made.
National Park, they put the army in the network look after them and here is where they have fabulous terraces, they're really very beautiful.
Wful start to see.
And.
Traveled bit. we had dinner somewhere we on the road this right. I think we stopped somewhere with there some hot water coming out of the river and bathes and washed here and so on and so on.
And hilar then with all this motoring back and forth and them with bathing in the river till too late at night of course we missed any gas stations that were open and the United States this chocolate block with gas stations there' just everywhere there's very few places you could run out of gas but of course national parks aren't quite so far and we were miles away from a petrol station so we asked a couple of rangers how far it was to one and they all sort of 14 miles out of the park we thought we might make it but unfortunately we ran out of petrol first time in 13,000 miles.
Thank you.
And we were five miles out of medicine, which is the last point before you leave the park, where a guy came along and he had a C radio.
Well the next thing he's shouting over his radio doesn' anybody have gas and so on and so forth and I really thought we had you know almost a national I dude out for our petrol I felt quite embarrassed I thought we're going to end up with you know 93 gallons of gas coming along because they all listen to these CB radios everybody's got them.
However, they managed to find the sky said if nobody came he couldn't sort of contact nobody seemed to answer so he said he'd go into the camp and he'd either come back or send the rangers up or he actually came back to tell me that the rangers were coming the rangers finally arrived about and help us to leave at night they'd been busy and they would be same two rangers and we'd spoken to earlier who'd leaped out the cars laughing saying well you didn't make her and brought us up gas which they charged as not a penny more than the price of the gas for which was very sweet of them.
So we moved on out of West Yellowstone to Ashton.
We spent the night at Ashton.
I think we.
Excuse me.
I haven't got a cold, but it sounds like I have.
Mo on to Idaho Springs which are very nice, they are very wide fall, I mean Idaho.
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And very wide fold.
And then we went down to Cocateello and Ogden, all farmland and.
Very nice countryside.
Had a swim a lake at Oton, and then we drove on.
And to stayed 80 through to Park City, which is yet another magnificentga ski resort. This one's got a particularly interesting thing in that day.
Have you go up on the chairlift couple of miles and you come down on a little.
Sort of.
Slaigh things down a very, very cornerary and very, very fast track from well over a mile, it's really quite fun like it's just loved up.
Its beautiful buildings up these.
Kee resorts, this shadow Di buildings and fabulous luifer.
We spent the night.
At.
No, we went on onto so plate. that's right.
And.
Dve on into Salt Lake City and spent the night near the temple.
Oh yes, we am.
First thing when was Friday, the 14th of July the next morning we went around to the visitor centre just to get a bit of information we've always started touring around Sal Lake and a guy came John was on at the visitor center and the guy came rushing up to me said, " you're not from New Zealand and he shouted out.
And Mai at me and I said, I'm terribly sorry I don't understand, and he said his name was Gordon C. Young and of course he's a direct descendant of Briham Young in the original Mormon.
And settle.
And it turned out that the guy had he was 80, had purchased the land at Hamilton for the temple, if you please, on 23r May 1949 Well, he lived just behind the visitor centre and he rushed off to this Good out wait and I said yes, I'd wait, and he came rushing back and he had three letters from Sir Keith Hollyo, Mar was delighted and he read them to me word for word and he'd been down on New Zealand in February and he' had spoken to Sir Keith on the phone and.
It was.
Really a very, very interesting old gentleman.
And his wife was there, and he spoke for Mary, I age and spoke very well not being to up on Mary myself.
So he invited us back to his home and it was really quite fascinating to go into somebody's house and see so many things from New Zealand, pictures and mirrors and all kinds of puts of Greenstone and books and so on on New Zealand and we spent most of their morning with him.
Being a Mormon he and one of the older elders, he was off to the church in the afternoon to marry us all off so that we will all be okay and heaven and married for eternity and all the rest of it but anyway we.
After we lived.
We went to see the museum the daughters of Utah museum fabulous fabulous place, full of early pioneer relics and so on then we went on to Bogut's yogurt parlour in trolley Square trolley Square is a very unique sort of place it was the old tram shed and it's been converted into the most beautiful mall and here we you find a bogut yogurt actually frozen yogurt is almost more popular and ice cream here and it's a fabulous they don't serve it served just like a cream freezeze affair it's very really nice.
It's really good value.
We spent the afternoon just about in a bookshop there talking to a guy about Volkswagens and New Zealand and one thing another.
And.
Thenim we oh yeah, we went to a swimming pool that afternoon and two little dark kindned boys came rushing up to me and said,  was I from New Zealand and they were little boys from Samoa Toga sorry that had lived in Auckland or been born in Auckland and were naturally parents were moremons and with the church and were now living in Salt Lake City.
Yeah.
They were quite cute, little kids.
On Saturday, the 15th, they had oh its this particular weekend in Salt Lake it is is most interesting because of course it's the 100 year celebrations And so the following on Saturday morning they had the most enormous primary10 years of primary schools parade with 9000 children on a window on a couple of hours, fabulous parade so we watched that and then we went to the temple. Well, it really is an incredible place Its10 acres.
We spent most of the day there. Of course, it's.
There's a fair amount of brainwashing goes on and so on, but it's very interesting to see, of course you don't actually get to the temple itself.
But you can go through the tabernacle and the visitorsor send us pretty.
It's pretty impressive and a little chapel.
We went back to trolley Square in the afternoon and it rained actually. so we had we sleep at trolley Square and later on the afternoon, we went to Liberty Park and.
Chatterted with a abuic dealer of the well on the night.
On the Sunday, we went back to the to the temple, and we were very fortunate that day because the the Teernappcle choir recalled every Sunday morning for half an hour. And that was the day of their 50th.
50th year of broadcasting. And so they had a special special service and they just after the recording session, they s in the Liberty hm, which really was fantastic.
Really quite an experience.
Very moving experience.
Oh we left Salt Lake City that after we'd done the temple but in the morning. and, of course, we had to call up the Salt Lake for a swim, which is.
Really something we were told it was a one to assure as you, it's a very thorough.
Funny little beache shoot. the waters a long way out. and you you have to walk out miles and miles. you'd have to walk out over a mile to get much further up than your knees than water. But it has that really strange feeling of buoyancy. And it was quite fun that the tinerness they have showers on the beach because it sticks do you like glue and you really need to shower straight afterward to get the salt off.
And.
Oh, well, then we went on forward to it, but we had that ghastly 550 miles between Salt Lake City and Reno, and of course, it's all desert.
And it's the salt flats, the bonneville ss salt flat, such famous place. But boy, of course, you've not only got the he pitch of the glare. and the very, very flat contour of the land. It's probably I would think one of the only places in the world we see the curvature of of the earth. It's so vast. and you actually can see the the curve on the face of the earth. Well, we got to bonneville flats, which, of course, are so famous for racing. And we decided to go down to them. and and you, luckily enough, there was some racing on.
And we saw all kinds of crazy machines all hooped up to do all sorts of fantastic speeds. They were going at 290 miles now, some of them that day and we saw a girl called.
Masa.
Holly think her name was, yeah, who's a stunt writer, one of the best in the United States, the woman she was riding there.
AndIt was quite an experience that kids enjoyed it, too. it's unreal that the heat was so great. And and the glared, they're actually making a television advertisement or movie or something too out there of scheme. They often use the salt effectss for skis.
We drove on through to Rio. we spent the night.
I spent the night at Rena, at least we can get there all, pretty late in the morning and.
About 2 AM was lunch.
And then we went to see the Herod's car collection, which is unbelievable, the costs involved are just tremendous. you know, of course where all the money comes from the casinos the Herods very, very wealthy family with very large casinos both in Reno and at Lake Tahoe, the large warehouses are just cho with cars from the Y dock of present time and aircraft and boats as well.
 they've even got the latest Ro Royce there.
Then we went to the M G M Grand Casino, which is the biggest and must be Well its it is It's the newest and the very largest casino in the world. and its magnificence is unrealal. The shand layers are just fantastic. It's got a bowling alley with 5050.
.
You know, bowlling at least. the shops are exquisite. The restaurants are incredible. There's a French restaurant that costs you 1 and10 a head. There's movie theaters galore and photographs of all the old film stars.
Yeah, it's the parking available is incredible. It's just the best.
Beautiful place.
ho was completely thrown up with million something like $55 million or something, and there's a terrific shortage of staff there.
ButWe also went back to Circus Circus. It's a slightly smaller one than Las Vegas. Actually Reno is quite a different gambling area. It's much more sort of select and a little bit more elite.
Not quite as glowy.
And.
That night.
We oh yes, we went to Crcus Circus all evening, and then we drove on to Virginia study we camp just south of Virginia study that night. Virginia study was Tuesday, the 18th of July, fabulous.
We.
I'm running out of tape again, I't know I assume the going would tape back crazy, don't I?
The journey is setting. Well, that's the really is the wild west.
 real a wealth that must have come from this one town.
There's enough gold, well, the fact is that the gold that came from this town completely built San Francisco.
During the 18th century, you know, inflation must have been incredibly high because the sudden wealth that these people had, there was one lady of Renown who apparently for a gourmet dinner and the theater and then the feather beard cost100 a night, which I imagine shows that people hadte a few bars.
But there's, of course all the famous wild Western heroes and I didn't realise Mark T was in these areas during those days and this was where he first started and first used the pin name.
He was writing for the newspapers here at the time, but this is a beautiful town. It's been completely kept as it was since the last fire. these towns, all the West towns got burnt down many times, and this of course, was one of them.
There was a hotel that stood there during that time in the 1860s, 40s to 60s and.
It cost then $265000 just.
It' incredible.
The.
That fire was always a big problem in his. and also death by ill fortune was another thing that went on one occasion,88 people were.
were killed or murdered or whatever before one natural cause death was registered, so it was a place that probably one wasn't terribly safe only knew there was a very big population in those days.
Fascinating place, really fascinating.
And.
Good.
We left Virginia city and moved on to Lake Tahoe, really.
Like Tahoe is.
It's beautiful. It's well, Tapo is my very, very favorite.
Lake our place and this lake is just more beautiful than Tapo, one side of it is more beautiful than another, but the water is crystal clear and it's really truly magnificent, beautiful blue water.
From there, we went up to the.
The Donna pass, we spent the night at the Donna pass and we didn't realise quite the historic significance of that until the next day when we went to the visitor centre and learned all about the Donna party that were so.
 unfortunately in this area and 846 half of them were lost as they crossed the mountains this is the most interesting book about about their expedition they got caught, they left the east too late and they got caught in the snow and they had to resort to.
Cannibalism to survive. most heroesing story.
We fished at Lake Donner on the morning of Wednesday, the 19th before we visited the.
A.
Visit a centre where you can hear all about these early pioneers.
After that, we moved on down through Truee.
To S Valley, of course, the International Olympic S.
iels and by coincidence, just as we arrived, they were bringing down the tram car that on April 15 of this year, four people were killed and there was 82 people on board at the time, and the cable broke and it happened over the mountain. And, in fact, they couldn't see the cable car from where they were, but.
They.
Had just brought it down and we had hopefully a photo of it as they pulled it over the side the man it was very badly damaged, it's surprising that more people weren killed.
Interesting to go to Square Valley because it's so famous, of course, it's not as beautiful as some of the Elki resorts, but they're not sort of more geared for professional sport.
And.
We then oh, after Lis War Valley, that right, we drove on down back to Lake Tahoe. we'd left Lake Tahoe as we drove north and we've come back to it. we crossed also back into Nevada. So there was more casinos at the.
At South Lake Tahoe, they've got a herod's casino.
Have to go on yet another tape so we're into the third tape now that you can offer herods and Tahoe.
See you on the next page.