Feb 2, 1963

2/2/2011

We got up and found that it was snowing – of all things! So we decided to head to Malaga and warmer weather then return to Granada to see the Alhambra later. On the way we drove through a place on the Costa del Sol called Torremolinas. It had the most fantastic hotels. Costa del Sol makes the French Riviera look shabby It is beautiful. The views are breathtaking. We had no idea where we were going to stop for the night, since it was one of those spur of the moment things. So we ended up in Algeciras rather than Gibraltar.

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1962 was pivotal. This is the background:

It was a year colored by the Cuban Missile Crisis, an escalating involvement in Vietnam, the Berlin Wall and the Cold War with Russia, Civil Rights issues, a nascent space program, Nelson Mandela in prison, Betty Friedan's, The Feminist Mystique, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the death of Marilyn Monroe.

In the face of all of this, Pat, Judy and I blithely took off for Europe with the intention of traveling through Europe and North Africa until our money ran out. We had a travel guide and a book titled Europe on $5.00 a Day. Since we had all read The Ugly American in preparation for the trip, we thought we were very smart to buy a used Volkswagen with Dutch license plates. We dubbed the car "Louie" since a cute guy from Switzerland named Louie had helped us acquire it.

There was no such thing as a cell phone, a computer, Twitter or Facebook. Our parents didn't hear from us for weeks on end. We wrote regularly, but letters took forever to deliver and we only vaguely knew where we would be next. It was a very cold winter and we followed the sun.

Feb 2, 1963

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