Another funny memorable thing that happened on our honeymoon was our car! We were driving a Volkswagon Bug. They are really light, and as long as you didn't get into a wreck with them they were a wonderful little car. We enjoyed ours and had two of them within the first few years of our married life. We did get into a wreck with the second one that could have killed us all, but the Lord was with us, and all that happened was that we had one infant, our youngest daughter on the floor with cuts on her face and head because of the glass, and they were not bad cuts, not much more than scratches. I hit a large steer that my brother, who was the brand inspector for the government at that time, had found for this rancher. The reason he found the steer is that it had crawled a fence. Well, now this critter had crawled another fence, and after I killed him with our car, the owner said, well, he won't be crawling any more fences!
Anyway back to our honeymoon, and our drive South in California. I had been to California when I was 4 years old, and now at 23 years old on our honeymoon we were returning to Southern California, Los Angelos, to be exact, where my older sister lived in one of the suburbs. It was amazing because when we were driving through Los Angelos, I turned on the exact exit that I needed to go to my sister's house, and I didn't have any idea where I was going! It was one of those small miracles. Anyway, we called them, and my sister and brother-in-law came to meet us and show us the way to their house. Anyway the cellenoid contact on the ignition key switch burned out as we were just coming into Northern California, and every time we had to start that car, we had to push it! What we was that I pushed from the driver's door, and Carol pushed from behind, when we got it moving as fast as we could, I hopped in the driver's seat, pushed in the clutch, put it in, 2nd or 3rd gear, popped out the clutch while Carol was still pushing from behind, and wa la, our car was running! When we got to Los Angelos, my brother-in-law took me to a car parts store, and we got that ignition key switch. All the time we were in Los Angelos that car started fine, but as soon as we left Los Angelos heading North, it quit working, and we had to push start it every time until we arrived at where we were going to live our first year of our married life. I bought another switch, and it lasted as long as we had that car until the engine gave up and quit running!
