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for generations. We drove down the Loire Valley and visited several of
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him that we must get a silver nitrate pencil at a pharmacy and burn the
canker. Richard and Janet grinned and could see no way whereby their
Dad would accomplish this. I drove to a pharmacy and went in. Remem-
bering my high school French and chemistry, I asked the pharmacist,
“Bonjour monsieur. Avez vouz un crayon AgNO3?” The pharmacist im-
mediately procured the silver nitrate pencil; I paid him and brought it
out to the car to the astonishment of my two teenagers.

We drove north to Versailles, then to Paris. By purest chance, I
drove right past the Cathedral of Notre Dame. It seemed endless as we
drove through local roads through Paris and its suburbs trying to get to
Holland. That night we stayed in a small hotel on the Belgian border. On
the walls were pictures of the devastation in the area in World War I. The
next day we drove through Belgium to Rotterdam, where we arranged
for the car to be steam cleaned inside and out and then to be shipped
on a freighter leaving in the next few days for San Francisco. We took
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received a cable from Jean explaining that Cindi had come down with
a case of the mumps and she had to delay her departure. It was a day or
two later before Jean arrived. She was very tired from continuous duty
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London.
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York. We immediately loved jet planes because of their speed, relative
quietness of the engines, and the lack of vibration in the plane. In New
York, we stayed in the Park Sheraton Hotel. The next day Richard and
I took the bus across the George Washington Bridge to Fort Lee, New
Jersey, where we picked up our new Ford station wagon. We drove it
to the back of the Sheraton and loaded our bags. We drove south to
Philadelphia and went out to Valley Forge. We stayed at a motel on
the Delaware border and the next day went to see the DuPont Estate

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