Two wonderful women, mother and daughter that were fortunate enough to do some traveling together, now they are together and can travel the universe without fear or pain. You are our flashlite of life ladies!

Malia Lane who set up this memorial page for her mother, passed away on February 11, 2019.  Check out Malia's memorial page at https://www.forevermissed.com/malia-lane/#about .  We miss them both so much.

I don’t know how old I was when I first saw this picture taken of her when she was 19.  I must have been young and silly enough to have been shocked at how pretty she was and that I couldn’t believe she had ever been that young.  When I told her that, she told me how she always hated that picture – because she hadn’t noticed the rip below the shoulder of the dress and she said she was always embarrassed that she thought she looked like a “poor little country girl who didn’t know better.” I remember thinking at at the time that until she brought it up, I hadn’t even noticed the tear.  As I’ve thought on her comment since then, I realize now she had a lot of insecurities from her childhood and like so many of us, those insecurities haunted her and kept her from being as happy as she could have been, even long into adulthood.  I trust you're in a place now where you know you beautiful you are, mama, and are clothed in perfection.

I was blessed to be able to share so many trips with my mom, including Alaska, Canada, Florida, Redwoods & Sequoia, Yellowstone, Blue Ridge Parkway, Oregon/California Coast and much more.

I put together a tribute webpage with pictures and stories from these years at http://www.maliasmiles.com/blog/memories-of-my-mama/

This was during our tour of the entire Blue Ridge Parkway in 2007.

I love how happy she looks here.  There was a part of the Appalachian Trail here and she trudged down it a few feet with her walker and said, “Now I can say I hiked the Appalachian Trail!”

At age 79 with a bum knee, she was still bound and determined to make it to the top after these 400+ steps!

There were times I was ready to give out, and all alway the way she'd ask people coming down if it were much farther.  Response was usually, "It's worth it" and she'd just keep plodding along since we were in no hurry.  I was so proud of her!

During our Alaska trip, she’d sometimes doze off and then rouse herself saying she didn’t want to miss anything. She told me she’d get irritated with me sometimes because I didn’t get up early enough or took too long to get ready to go. “I can’t wait to get up on my co-pilot’s seat – I feel like the queen of the world. My favorite time of day is when I buckle up my seat belt and we take off – I don’t even care where we’re going!

This was heading out on a glacier cruise during our time in Alaska in 2003.  Sometimes I would catch a glimpse of the wonder in her eyes as she looked out onto scenes like this. Such a peaceful joy I was always happy to see.

When I first decided to travel fulltime as an RVer, my mom was not happy about it and said it was the “stupidist thing I’ve ever done.”

But when I started taking her with me on some of my trips, she quickly changed her mind.

While at Disney World, she told me she had always wanted to see this but thought that was a dream that would never come true.

We met Mickey Mouse and Cinderella.  Never give up on your dreams!

This was taken at Lake Travis after I had moved to Austin in 1971.  The picture quality is horrible, but the sheer look of love between these two has made it one of my forever favorites of Angelique and her grandma.

My mom always loved trees and taught me the same appreciation.  For both of us, one of our favorite trips together was to the Redwoods and Sequoiah State Park.  We hugged many trees there in 2005.