The news reports today are reflecting back 40 years ago to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Sometimes things happen in our lives and it's easy to remember where you were at that time and what you were doing. And, RFK's assassination is one of them for me.
On June 5, 1968, our family was heading out on the first real family vacation we'd ever been on. It wasn't like our family had never traveled together before, but primarily it had been connected to moving in conjunction with Dad's job in the Air Force. This was going to be a real, genuine family vacation. We were living at Eglin AFB, Florida near Ft. Walton Beach and we were heading to central Florida to visit Busch Gardens and some of the surrounding attractions. (DisneyWorld, SeaWorld and the majority of the theme parks and attractions operating today were not even in business at that time).
I think the highlight(?) of our entire, life-long sleeping accomodations was the hotel we stayed in the first night. I'll never forget the Bambi Motel - wow! Located at 1829 U.S. Highway 19 in Perry, Florida, it was one of those roadside, non-chain motels that you drove right up to your room door. It was the kind of motel that you reached into the door first and turned the light on before entering. It was one of those kind of motels that you didn't want to get up in the middle of the night for fear that you might step on something that you could squish under your feet. If I remember correctly, the shower was pink tile accented with a green mold/slime border. Would you believe that according to the internet, the Bambi Motel is still in business? Holy Moly!!! Well,just remember, every vacation needs a high point and the Bambi Motel was ours
My memory of that trip was the cereal. Remember Mom had filled a huge tupperware canister with it and we stopped in Lake City to eat by a lake.To this day I think of that when I am buying bulk cereal. I think it was something like lucky charms and she bought it on sale.
ReplyDeleteNope, it wasn't Lucky Charms. It was Captain Crunch and she bought it for something like .15 a box. I've never eaten Captain Crunch since then either!
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