Sunday, September 15, 1991 - Norttiy Shore News -— 44

Heading out for the great beyond

WE’RE ABOUT io set off
on an unusual trip for us.
Where are we going? Don’t
know for sure.

How ‘ong are we
Don’t know that, either.

Unfortunately, my new van
won't be here in time to take it so
it’s Brian’s pig that we drive.

i'm used to travelling very light.
Not this time! I'm taking my
wpewriter, my own pillow, as
many pairs of shoes as I like and
two coats.

Air travel turns you into a tur-
tle, carrying everything you own
on your back or at the end of
your arm. This time, | can turn
the back seat of the car into an
office.

I can give you a rough idea of
what we have planned, but any-
thing goes. We know we’re going
to Seattle. At that point, we may
turn left. [ suspect our next major
destination will be Salt Lake City.

Why? 1! love the place. Brian
doesn’t but he’s being agreeable.

Besides, we intend to spend a
bit of time trying to figure out
who the McCreadies really were.
All we have is some vague rumors
but all we know for sure is that
Brian’s grandmother arrived in
Victoria in the early 1900s with
four kids.

Did she come from Ottawa?
We've been told so. There is no
question that she was anything but
a lovely, respectable little Scottish
lady. Where was Daddy? No one
seems to know.

The Latter Day Saints (Mor-
mons) have the finest centre in the
world for tracing gencalogies and
we're headed right there.

The service is free but even if
there were a fee involved, we feel
it’s worth it.

If one family mystery isn’t
enough, there’s another on my
side. I, too, have a set of grand-

staying?

Barbara
NicCreadie

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parents fogged in mystery.

Fortunately, all our ainysteries
appear to be centred in the
English-speaking world so our
knowledge of geography should be
adequate. What do peopie do
when their ancestry comes from
countries that no longer exist?

Well, so much for Salt Lake Ci-
ty. When I get through dragging
Brian around he'll be happy to get
in the car and go ANYWHERE.

I want to go to Cheyenne,
Wyoming. Why? Don’t know.
Never been there. Like the name.
Isn’t this fun?

I also want to go to Denver for
lunch.

No, I don’t want a genuine
Denver Sandwich. ! want to have
lunch at the Brown Hotel and
probably stay the night there.

It will be wonderful to go to
Denver and not have to fight that
awful airport. Oh, yes, I know
they’ve fixed it up. Sure. As far as
I'm concerned, the only way to fix
that place is with a wrecker’s ball,
but who asked me?

I suspect our next stop might be
Vegas (lots of little stops . be-

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wluseum and Archives, Brigitte
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i was told that if f ever want to
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Every time I've been to Vegas
ve been strangled by green felt
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[ know for sure that we're
visiting friends in Pearblossom,
CA, and that we're going to the
Dodger’s game on the 28th. I've
got an old friend to visit in La
Habra, too.

Next general destination is the
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fairly silly because neither of us
likes wine very much. But there's
a winery in Santa Barbara vicinity
that makes one hell of a dessert
wine, unavailable in Canada. I’m
going to try and track it down.

And, San Francisco. Brian has
two musts for that city —
Alcatraz and Cafe Sport. We took
the kids to Alcatraz when they
were little — they loved it and so
did we. Gotta go back.

The Cafe Sport serves the best
Sicilian food I've ever tasted. A
column a few years ago sent a lot
of you there and | got raves and
thanks for passing on the tip.

Also, [I've been told that the
column is glued to the till at Cafe
Sport and I want to rip it off if
the standards have dropped. Hope
they haven't!

It’s such an easy drive over the
Donner Pass to Reno that we'll do
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There's a spot on that road, an
olive and almond warehouse, that
we visited many years ago. Is it
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Hope so ~ Christmas is coming.

As you can sec, we are turning
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