Various Notes on Bill & Lois W.’s Travels (From “Lois Remembers”. Surprisingly, this book has 18 chapters and it is not until the last two chapters that the focus shifts to Al-Anon. The first 6 chapters are pre-AA days, followed by 10 chapters covering Ebby’s visit up thru AA in the 1970’s. Compiled by Tony C.)
1943-1944 trip [pages 143-144] (extended trip through the west and south) Chicago Omaha Denver Grand Canyon (side trip to see Canyon) Los Angeles Hollywood San Francisco San Quentin prison Sacramento Folsom prison Portland Seattle San Diego (to return Bill’s mom home) Trabuco Tucson, Arizona Houston, Tx New Orleans, La Dallas, Tx Little Rock, Ark Oklahoma City, Ok
1948 trip [pages 149-150] (by train through Canada) Toronto Winnepeg Calgary Marblehead (to see Bill’s dad) Vancouver Victoria Los Angeles (met by Dr. Bob and Anne)
1950 spring trip [pages 152-155] (10 week plan to visit groups in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, France, England, Ireland & Scotland) Norway – Oslo Sweden – Stockholm Holland – Amsterdam France – Paris England – Caxton Hall, “The Hall”, high-class sanitarium near Harrow Ireland – Dublin, Blarney Castle, Limerick, Belfast Scotland – Edinburgh (home just in time for first AA International Convention in Cleveland)
Other travels / vacations noted [pages 150-152] Laurentine Mountains of Quebec used as an example of how impromptu meetings formed when Bill W. was sighted Charleston, Sc Williamsburg, Va “the beautiful Southern gardens” Gaspe Peninsula Nova Scotia hiking trips across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont (2 at least, first in 1919) freighter trip through Panama Canal Taboga Island (off Pacific coast of Panama) St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix Mexico (to see the pyramids and Mexico City) Oaxaca, Zapotec ruins at Monte Alban and Mitla (next year) Florida for Audubon tour through Everglades on to Mexico – Mayan ruins of Chicken Itza and Uxmal in Yucatin (Another year) vacation in Spain, Portugal and Canary Islands Madrid, Segovia & Toledo. Granada, Galratta, Pillar of Hercules and Tangiers. Lisbon Portugal, Oporto, back to Lisbon. (5 day car tour) (next year) Caribbean cruise – “various islands” (one time) steamer to cross Lake Superior to Isle Royale Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Oahu (trip to Scilly Islands, England late March 1967) London, Land’s End, the Scillies (had been to England in 1950 w/o visiting southern tip)
