My Trails into the Past

We last left off the story of my aunt, Lorene E. Hork and three of her girlfriends and their travels from Japan, after working for the U.S. Army for a year. Check out  Part I ,   Part II , Part III , and Part IV to see their earlier adventures . [1] They left Bombay, India on 24 October 1953 aboard the T.S.S. Jal-Jawahar . She wrote home using the stationery from the ship, which showed an image of the ship and the flag of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company, Limited. I learned that the flag was blue and white with a red swastika, which was an ancient Indian symbol unrelated to Nazi German use. [2] The ship left Bombay, sailed across the Arabian Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and then north in the Red Sea, where it would go through the Suez Canal and stop at Port Said, where they would take a train to Cairo. At least, that was the plan when they purchased their tickets. Aboard this ship, they played deck tennis and deck cards, both English games, and a bingo-like game called Ho...

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My daughter is visiting for a few weeks, which leaves little time to write. Here is a post I wrote for Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. We wrote about how we got to school. I used all kinds of transportation in the 16 years of getting to school. https://mytrailsintothepast.blogspot.com/2018/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-did.html Copyright © 2020 by Lisa S. Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.