California Sunshine 1973

For many years when I was in my early teens, my dad started teasing us with a California vacation - that we would get to visit Disneyland. But summer after summer would go by and we never went west of NY. Finally, the year I turned 16, my dad and mom planned a big trip...Anaheim, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco - not necessarily in that order but I do know we flew out from SFO.

In essence it was a great trip but I was at that in between age. Feeling too old to be traveling with my parents but too young to do it on my own.

A few weeks ago, I realized that I hadn't seen any photos from that trip. Which is odd since we are a camera toting family. I broached the subject with my mom and she also wondered about the missing photos because she knew there were some! After investigating, she found the negatives. From a 110 camera which meant the negatives were tiny. None of the drugstores or photo places would make prints from them. I asked Nikki and she, being the genius that she is...produced. The quality isn't great but the memories the shots have brought are priceless.

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