Judy and Pat on the Sunadele. The trip begins We had taken passage on a freighter named the Sunadele. The cost of this part of the adventure was $190 U.S. The Sunadele was a Swiss ship! Since Switzerland is a landlocked country, who knew they had ships?
On Monday Nov 16th, we left the St Lawrence Seaway heading across the Atlantic for Bristol England.
The crew. What were we thinking? The crew was composed of a captain, chief mate, 3rd mate, chief engineer, 2nd engineer and an ex chief steward who, we were told, had been deported from Montreal for smuggling liquor. What were we thinking? Three young girls on a freighter with a bunch of young sailors and a known smuggler? This was only the first of many risks we would take along the way.
We landed safely in Bristol on Sunday the 25th of November and headed to Rotterdam in the Netherlands where we bought a 1958 VW Beetle with the help of one of the crew, Alois Camenzind. We promptly named the car after him and from then on only referred to it as Louie.
By December we had driven Louie from the Netherlands, through Germany and to Innsbruck, Austria. Innsbruck is one of Austria's best known and fanciest winter resorts. I wrote in a letter home that the skiing was great but that the Europeans don’t groom their slopes very well. I wrote that “they don’t have moguls on their slopes, they have sheer drop offs.”
From this point on, I will post a diary entry that corresponds to the date 48 years ago. Please take a minute to add where you were then.
By December we had driven Louie from the Netherlands, through Germany and to Innsbruck, Austria. Innsbruck is one of Austria's best known and fanciest winter resorts. I wrote in a letter home that the skiing was great but that the Europeans don’t groom their slopes very well. I wrote that “they don’t have moguls on their slopes, they have sheer drop offs.”
From this point on, I will post a diary entry that corresponds to the date 48 years ago. Please take a minute to add where you were then.
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