Road tripping then and now baby boomer

Joe Moris

Americans love their cars, but the real love of a car is not found in routine commutes but out driving the open road.

BIRD WAL K Learn about local endangered snowy plovers and California least terns free with field biologist Maryanne Bache, at Buena Vista Audubon’s monthly meeting at 7 p.m., May 13, at the Buena Vista Audubon Nature Center, 2202 S. Coast Highway, Oceanside. For more information: (760) 439-2473 or bvaudubon.org/.

MAY 15

STORIES FOR BABY

Meet some new moms at Bouncing Babies Storytime, 10:30 a.m. specially designed for pre-walking infants, with activities and

MAY 16

I was 19; it was the summer of 1969. My parents had returned to the United States from my dad’s position with Air Asia in Taiwan and were living near Chicago. I quit my job with Taco Bell (owned by the original Mr. Bell’s manager, Bill Cason, who then opened the second and fifth Taco Bells in El Cajon … imagine the future had I continued … ah, the left and right turns of life!) and set out on a road trip to Pekin, Illinois; about 100 miles south of Chicago.

WORD ON WINE

The Del Mar Village Association presents Cinecucina, an Italian Film Festival with dinner and wine and a movie about winemaking, “Senza Trucco” (“Without Makeup”) from 6 to 10 p.m. May 16 at L’Auberge Del Mar, 1540 Camino Del Mar. about four producers of organic and bio-dynamic wine. Tickets are $90 at info@delmarmainstreet. com.

I had $20 and a 1956 VW Bug with curtains on the windows. Gas was $0.11-$0.13 a gallon depending on where you were. I drove Route Hwy 66 and even with two onenight stays in hotels in New Mexico — to watch a huge Indian celebration all in native attire and then a spontaneous stop in Amarillo, Texas to

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