A to Z Blogging Challenge · Earliest Memories · family

E is for Ethiopia

There once was a man in Ethiopia
(Where the roads resembled twisted rope-ia)
He drove a VW Bug
With family quite snug
[how would you finish my limerick?]

Roads in Ethiopia 1963
The VW Bug our family squeezed into
Our family that fit — albeit snugly — into the VW Bug

In an undated journal entry — sometime early January 1963 — my father wrote, “We’ve purchased a 1959 VW sedan with under 15,000 miles from L. N. for $800. This is an ideal car for this area.”

I remember riding in that car. I think there were times when we also had another adult in the car with us, a native Ethiopian woman who helped my mother with us — so 7 people in a VW on windy narrow roads! Crazy, right?


A few years ago I did the A-to-Z Challenge using collages I had made alongside unfinished limericks. I especially enjoyed the unfinished limerick part. It was very audience-participation-ish.

This year I thought I would try using old photographs and unfinished limericks. Can you finish this limerick?

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