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Show Are Home From Trip In Mexico Three weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Will Bunker, with Mr. and Mrs. Lamond Bunker in their car, and Mr. and Mrs. John Adams, with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Christensen in their car, set forth on a trip to Mexico City. Sunday the Bunkers returned home, having travelled more than 5700 miles in 20 days. Mr. and Mrs. Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Christensen remained in Mexico Mex-ico for a time, visiting Mrs. Adams' family, and doing genealogical work. Leaving Delta, the travellers journeyed together to Anderson Ranch, and there the Adams family fam-ily went on to Los Angeles to visit their daughter, Mary. The Bunkers went on to Grand Canyon and to Phoenix, Ariz., where they visited Orran Ashby and family, LeRoy Smith and family, and went sightseeing. sight-seeing. At Chandler, Ariz., they vis- nea ivir. ana ivirs. rtaymona Armstrong Arm-strong and Rayma Bunker, and toured the countryside. At Mesa, Ariz., they were rejoined rejoin-ed by the Adams group, and all went through the Mesa temple. From there they went an to El Paso, Texas, where they met missionary mis-sionary friends, and Elder Merlin Forster, who invited them to the Spanish LDS branch sacrament meeting. At Sunday school in El Paso they met Don Black, a brother bro-ther of Pres. June W. Black. The Bunker group visited the Carlsbad caverns which they found most impressive. The whole 'party visited in San Antonio, wheer they met Elizabeth Moody, there in the mission field, and missionary companions com-panions of the Adams family. Crossing Cros-sing the international bridge at Brownsville they spent a night and day at Matamoros with Kenneth Adams, there in the mission field. From there they drove to Mexico City and spent three days, filled with interest and all the sightseeing sightsee-ing possible in that time. They visited vis-ited cathedrals, museums, the float ing garden, the flower market and made an expedition to the ancient ruins. There at the Temple of Rain they met a Mexican guide who had topped beets at their farms five years ago. They attended the bull fight in Mexico, among an audience of 45, 000 people. Coming home the Bunkers drove from Mexico City to Juarez, in two days, a distance of over 1300 miles. They report the Pan-American highway is fine, and they had no car trouble on the entire trip. They came through the Painted Desert and the petrified 'forest on the trip home. |