The Friday Flyer• June 17, 2016
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CANYON LAKE’S NEWSPAPER • JUNE 17, 2016
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Hans and Linda Weg are well known to readers for their many trips in “Near and
Far with The Friday Flyer.” Here, they’re pictured
on a recent
road trip to Oregon.
Fathers' Day 2016:
Road trips are one of this dad’s legacies
BY SHARON RICE
EDITOR, THE FRIDAY FLYER
Who doesn’t remember taking family road trips as a kid? As fun, difficult, long or short as they may have been, road trips that included a mom, dad and siblings are the bright, bold threads in the fabric of anyone’s memory lucky enough to have
taken them.
The Friday Flyer’s favorite travel-
ers, Hans and Linda Weg, have been sharing their travels with readers for several years now. Their most recent “Near and Far with The Friday Fly- er” trip to Oregon is in this week’s paper. They enjoy traveling with each other now, but they also used to
travel with their children.
As a father, Hans worked long
hours to provide for his family – first in aerospace, then in law enforcement – which allowed Linda to be a stay- at-home mom for their five children: four daughters and a son. But he also made time for family vacations, saying, “When the kids were young, we went on many road trips, which they hated,
always saying, ‘Are we there yet?’” “One year we went on a road trip on Hwy. 101 and Hwy. 1 all the way to Port Angeles, Washington; then
took the ferry to Victoria Island, then to Vancouver, Canada. This was all in a VW Rabbit, with the four girls in the back seat and the son on Linda’s lap and all of our luggage on top,” Hans re- calls. “Just imagine, seven people in a Rabbit!”
If today’s mothers and fathers groan at the thought – and today’s adult chil- dren laugh at similar memories – read on. This Father’s Day story is meant to inspire Canyon Lake parents to consider the memories they’re storing away in their children’s hearts. As Hans points out, “The kids still remember and still talk about that trip.”
The family took other trips through the western states and often took their boat to Lake Havasu and the Colorado River, “which the kids loved,” says Hans. Like many SoCal families, they frequented Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm and SeaWorld. Hans also coached some of his kids’ soccer and baseball teams.
“As a father, I am proud of hav- ing provided a good life for them,” says Hans.”They were very good students and never got into trouble for anything.”
Asked what quality she appreciated
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