August 1, 1926 (Sunday)
We had decided to sleep in a little so got up about 5:30 and were agog for the great entrance to the park. So you have had postcards ever since from there.
Wayside notes:
We find that the tent is priceless, far above rubies, that the feather beds are very comforting – “glad we brot ‘em along.;” that Shirley’s vanity case is the handiest thing on the works and the little Vaseline can in constant demand. The little suitcase is next on the honor roll, holding all the little indispensables of our toilets. The box which started out to hold fry pans and buckets was commandeered the second a.m. to ride the running board and hold extra wraps and parcels and our back seat was much more comfortable ever after. I soon found I could pin my hat onto the wide cloth band in corner of car cover so don’t wear it much. At the desert station called Yale, Shirley put her black tie around my head and I’ve been more respectable ever since.
We had decided to sleep in a little so got up about 5:30 and were agog for the great entrance to the park. So you have had postcards ever since from there.
Wayside notes:
We find that the tent is priceless, far above rubies, that the feather beds are very comforting – “glad we brot ‘em along.;” that Shirley’s vanity case is the handiest thing on the works and the little Vaseline can in constant demand. The little suitcase is next on the honor roll, holding all the little indispensables of our toilets. The box which started out to hold fry pans and buckets was commandeered the second a.m. to ride the running board and hold extra wraps and parcels and our back seat was much more comfortable ever after. I soon found I could pin my hat onto the wide cloth band in corner of car cover so don’t wear it much. At the desert station called Yale, Shirley put her black tie around my head and I’ve been more respectable ever since.
[The above "colored" post card is one of a set of 50 found amongst the memorabilia of the road trip to Yellowstone. This view depicts the western entrance to Yellowstone Park as it appeared in 1926.]
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