June 10th. 1967

Dear “Smoggys”,
Con favor de Dios we will leave here ten days from today. Mother has a Hospital
appointment on the 19th about her knee. We hope she can obtain relief, but relief or not she
says she will “grin and bear it” as it should hurt not more traveling than staying home. It will be
impossible to keep her from working, but we should try to save her as many steps as possible
without drawing attention. If we try to make her sit down it will just make her mad.
Now we have the trailer loaded. Here are the things in it.
Axe, Shovel, hammer
Dishes for six
Two boxes of food, (we cannot have too much of that), including a good supply of jerky,
some pinole.
Stove, lantern and supplies for same
1 cot, two tables, a card table and the one you know.
Three chairs. (we acquired a camp rocker without webbing. I was trying to reseat it with
some of that rubber tubing and I pulled so hard that I broke the chair.
If any of your friends have a good sized Dutch oven, try to borrow it.
We received a letter from Betty. She says that the girls can hardly wait. There was one
bit of bad news though. Robin, who is so very good in camp and who would be such a good
baby sitter, is in difficulties and may not go with us. Betty said that her grades had dropped off
and unless she got them back up before the end of the School term, she would have to go to
Summer school. She has just turned teen-------------.
We want to know just when you are leaving L.A. The reason we are going early is
because we are going to take it mighty easy on the road. Probably spend a day or two at
Boulder Dam. Then too Mother wants to visit a day or so with Betty before we go on.
Your itinerary looks good. There seems to be good camping places along that route so
that we won’t have to drive more that 150-200 miles or less on any day.
Break down and write. We would like your comments and itinerary between L.A. and
Tahoe.
Mother and I went to the Temple Wednesday and did Ordinance work for all the
Grandparents on the Mckay McGinnis side. Mother forgot to get the baptismal certificate date,
but the ordinance work was done on 1 June. Also for Verna, my oldest sister who is dead.
When you are ready to go the Temple we will do all the sealings at one time. If you don’t have
time to write, the telephone number is 326-0665
All Our Love,
Dad