I made many trips to Arizona over the years to visit with Mom and Dad. Sometimes everything would go well...other times Mom would do something that would just be too much for me to handle. One time she laid out an article by my plate at breakfast from Dear Abby all about gay people. It was not an especially positive column and it just made me so mad that I decided to leave early. Dad was great about it...he took me to the airport, paid the extra $25 and put me on the plane. He was very understanding about my decision.
One very special memory I have is when I went to visit in the fall of 1980. I was getting ready to entry graduate school but had planned the trip so that I could see both of them before I started school. Dad and I took a car trip for about 4 days. We drove to Chama, NM and took a single gauge railroad ride into Colorado. We drove to the Four Corners, arriving near sunset and just took in the beauty of that place. We also visited a professor of mine from college on the Indian Reservation where she was doing some research. It was a fantastic trip. I made a short 8 mm film of our railroad ride. I will never forget how much we enjoyed that time together.
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