Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends of Past years

By kiki

                       

                                

                                               Our motorhome

This coming Labor Day weekend brings back memories of those fishing and camping trips we used to take on the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends to the Eastern Sierras in our pickup camper and later in our motorhomes.

                      

                              James with his catch: a brown trout

It all started in the late ’60s when we made our first trip to the Sierras in a 1958 Chevy pickup. After that first trip, we bought a 1966 ¾ ton Chevy pickup with an eight-foot cab-over camper.  After about three years of driving the ’66 pickup, we bought our first motorhome in the early ’70s. Drove that motorhome for some four years. In 1976, we bought our last motorhome, a twenty-four-foot 1975 Four Star Dodge motorhome. At that point, we started planning our getaways for the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. We would save vacation days to use on those weekends. We would leave for the Sierras on the Thursday before the holiday and return home on the Wednesday after the holiday….Now those holiday weekends are just a distant memory...Connie hasn’t been camping since 2005; I go once a year; on the opening day of the trout fishing season.

           Connie kicking it in one of the campgrounds we would visit.

                        Connie and I camping in the Eastern Sierras