South America Tour–1964-1965 (to San Francisco)

Before beginning the log. I wanted to share photos of Ernest Saegart and Mildred (Elwell) Saegart. That way you can have a better picture of them. 

 

Saturday November 21, 1964 Tucson

Slept late, finished packing, left Tucson at 12:30 PM. We drove thru Casa Granda, Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix (last four are very nice agricultural areas) and into Sun City, Arizona. Registered at Kings Inn – $10.50/day – an excellent room.

Drove over to Sun City Real Estate office. Inspected six model homes. Fell in love with Vallensia model – $18,995. Had dinner at Kings Inn, then to Sun City Saturday Nite dance. Met a lot of nice people.

Sunday November 22, 1964 Sun City

Put up $500 deposit on home to be built in 15 months.

Monday November 23 – Saturday Nov 28, 1964

Left Sun City, Arizona at 12:30 PM and drove to Sun, City California to occur with Betty and Avery Batson. Arrived about 4:30 pm. Spent Tues. with them and left wed 11/25 for L.A. arrived and docked at the Breakers in Santa Monica – cold and cloudy. Thurs. drove down San Diego Freeway – hammed in a traffic tie up for more than an hour – to Carlsbad, to visit Mildred Pomeroy Richards (a second cousin) and family. Had delightful Thanksgiving Dinner and evening.

Left at 10 and drove back to S.M in heavy fog. Spent Friday 11/27 in R.A. too much traffic for us small town guys decided to cut short our stay here and drive to Santa Barbara in the morning. Sat 11/28 took off at 11:15 AM foggy and quite cold. By passed SB on freeway, so continued on to Monterey for the night. Later decided to go on in to San Francisco which we did and stopped at the Alpha Inn Motel 2505 Lombard St.

Sunday November 29 – Sunday November 13, 1964

This period in San Francisco was spend sight seeing and in final preparations for trips. We visited Margaret Shaver, her son Mike, daughter Shelia in Palo Alto, Emily King in San Carlo, Red and Ida McKennon in Hillsborough; talked to Leona Brant of Cheyenne at hotel in S.F. but could not get together. We packed and repacked and took part of our luggage to pier 4-1 in SF, from days before sailing for transfer to Alameda. Sailing dates were changed several times. We arranged with Wells Fargo bank to transfer $3000 from our bank in Lakewood and then picked it up in small bills. Bought supplies, 6 cards of hearing aid batteries, at $1.75 for card of 6. We purchased drugs, film and cosmetics and some articles of clothing. We visited the tourist office of Ireland, Scotland, England, Switzerland and Netherlands for brochures and info on our coming European tour. We even bought an automobile, a Volvo for delivery on June first in Gothenburg, Sweden. A errand was made over the Bay Bridge to Alameda to familiarize ourselves with the streets so we could make it quickly the day we sailed and returned to S.F to put our car in storage.