Both were teachers so they had developed the habit of taking trips during the summer months. Polly can remember a super auto trip across the United States in 1950.

Each summer during the 2nd World War (1941-1945) they went to Bennington, VT. Vincent and Ruth bought a piece of land on a hillside that overlooked the town. Ruth's sister, Louise, went with them. Louise helped Vincent build a small frame house.

The spreadsheet at the left shows they started taking bigger trips after their daughters were married.

Vince memorialized the 1968 trip when he assembled all the trip's picture slides in trays, recorded his commentary on tape, and played the tape as family and friends viewed the slides that were automatically advanced by a timer on a slide projector.

Years later their grandson, Brad, converted this to a video tape presentation. Poor Vince could not recall the trip when he watched the video.