Letters to the Editor June 2008

Dear Editor:

I looked through your RVAdventureMag and congratulate you. My late husband and I traveled extensively throughout US and Canada with various RVs. We enjoyed Wupatki with our three children in 1970s.

While at Sunset Crater we had a special experience. A National Park Ranger came by our unit and asked if we would like to accompany he and a visiting fellow Ranger from the East on a private walk. He took us to a part of the area which was not open to public use because of possible depreciation of the land from multiple use (Read that--too much foot traffic). He took us down a tunnel into the earth and an ice-cave which would be under the Crater. From 102' degree temperature on ground we soon dropped to freezing, as we explored this ice. The Ranger told us that until not many years earlier the ice for all use in that area was cut within this ice cave.

We did not complete our project to visit all the National Parks (US & Canada), but we were able to see a great many. We have a National Park Passport which contains many stamps.

We traveled every summer with our children, and by the time they finished high school they had "camped" in every province but Newfoundland and in all continental states but Oklahoma. What a wonderful education they had. We had 12 great years of RVing post retirement and saw so many beautiful and interesting places.

Thank you for re-kindling those memories,

Noreen Smith

 

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