NORWAY, DENMARK, & HOLLAND, 1954 

NORWAY

Here I am posing on my 8th birthday in Norway. We had been traveling there and in Sweden and were about to take a ferry back to Denmark and on to Germany.

My frown, looking-away expression, and body language — forms of silent protest — suggest that balancing on a stump on the shore of the North Sea was not what I most wanted to do on my special day.

Shown here are two photos from a rural road in Norway. I’m in the yellow sweater, and Daddy’s wearing the orangy-brown overalls.

As I recall this experience, we were progressing along a narrow two-lane country road when we came to a long line of cars that had been stopped in both directions due to a herd of goats who seemed disinclined to move along.

NORWAY continued

I don’t remember if a goatherd was present or if the goats were hanging out on their own. Other travelers — mostly amused but not entirely — were feeding the goats in an effort to hurry them along. Daddy and I joined that effort as Mama captured the “excitement” on film.

In later years, back home in America, I’ve seen “buffalo jams” and “cattle jams.” So I suppose one would call what we encountered in Norway a “goat jam.”

DENMARK

Here, I’m riding a merry-go-round at the famous Tivoli Gardens amusement park.

Daddy took me on the Ferris wheel and roller coaster, too, but Mama got no useable photos of us on those rides.