In the summer of 1972, five siblings, one cousin and one faithful aunt took an epic trip around the West as a final hurrah before the kids went off to college and started their own lives.

Helen “Sissy” Hagen believed that since her nieces and nephews hadn’t traveled out of Missouri much, she wanted another way to give them an experience they had never had before.

She packed Julie, Joan, John, Jane, Jeff and Annie into her Volkswagen van for a one-month trip spanning over 5,500 miles around the American West.

This travel album is a 35mm slide preservation commissioned by Amanda Unanue & Colin Webb.