Brattleboro Union High School - Colonel Yearbook (Brattleboro, VT)

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N' The Dial 0 Brattleboro I-Iigl1.Scl1ool Q Brattleboro - Vermont Volume XXIII February, 1928 Number Three ...... TRAVELOGUE Sunday-July 3I E got up at 4.00 a.m. and after spending two hours getting our luggage aboard and eating an excellent breakfast We were off. It was cold and the first thing it started to do was to rain. Nice send-off. We reached Ni- agara Falls about 10.30 p.m., after a day of slippery roads, and took in the Falls at night. It was a wonderful spectacle, those million candle power lights of all colors, marching back and forthhacross the Falls, We slept in a haystack about two miles from town. 431 miles lllouday-August I After taking in Niagara Falls in the morning and going down into the Cave of the Winds, we crossed the International Bridge into Canada. Nothing special to see except miles of wheat fields and vine- yards and miles of wonderful cement roads. We slept in a tourist camp outside of Windsor. Good sleep, but the ground was hard and cold. Brrrrll 275 miles Tuesday-August 2 We left Canada and crossed back into the States in a Detroit River Ferry. We went through the Hudson Plant at Detroit Ca car every thirty secondsj and then started for Chicago. Made good time at one place, going 173 miles in 'four hours. Went through Chicago at night and slept in a wheat field in Elgin. Sleeping in wheat fields was only a matter of driving the car- out into the field. Each one of us picking out a good size tumble of wheat and spreading it out to suit our length- no finer mattress known. In the morning tumble it back up again, shake the seed out of our hair, and we were just about nine healthy hours' sleep to the good. 348 miles Wednesday-Augtzrt 3 Went in swimming in a dandy pool at Elgin and then after seeing the famous clock works we started on. 'We reached Dubuque that hight and went to a dance. A iizzle except for the music. We slept in another wheat field. 188 miles Thursday-August 4 We left Dubuque and struck our first gravel roads. Dirt and dust and then more dirt. NfVe hit the plains here and saw miles of waving grass without a tree in sight, numerous dry washes and a few desert waterholes. Late in the afternoon we went in swimming at Clear Lake, Iowa. Manley and I slept on a camp table in a tourist camp at Sioux Falls. A wonder- ful camp with a winding river, swimming pool, birds galore, etc. 416 miles Friday-August 5 We left Sioux Falls after a swell sleep and a little rain and knocked off a few more miles of plains. Late in the after- noon we crossed the Missouri River and entered the Butte lands on the VVest side. Here we struck our first sight of the real West. Herds of cattle and horses, cot- tonwoods, cactus and sand. VVe slept in a hay field and slept like logs. 252 miles Saturday-August 6 We arose early and after washing at a near-by waterhole we started on. Our road lay straight before us into the West-at one place being visible nine miles ahead. At last we entered the Bad Lands, old- time hangout for outlaws. A land of weird, irregular masses and deceptive dis- tances. An awesome and colorful spec- tacle. Leaving the Bad Lands, we crossed a few more miles of desert and at last en- tered the Black Hills, vanguard of the Rockies. W'e went past the State Game Lodge, summer home of President Cool- idge, and then took the Needles road to Harney Feak. This wonderful road led up through the Needle rocks to Sylvan Lake and Harney Peak 17,000 feetj and then back down to Custer. VVe finally reached Hot Springs and after a dip in the famous pool, the temperature of which was 98 degrees or blood temperature, we went to bed in a tourist camp. 280 miles Sunday-August 7 Wfe left Hot Springs early and went to Wind Cave. Miles of narrow tunnels and spacious rooms from 3 to 600 feet under- ground. Exquisite limestone formations. When we came out it was raining and we hit our first gumbo Cclay mudj. 'Nuff said. Talk about hell on earth! That was it. We got stuck four times and helped about eight other cars out of the mud. Next our car stopped in the mud and refused to run at all. After being there two hours we discovered that the gas line was clogged with dirt. Going a few more miles we arrived back in Rapid City, and as it was raining three of us slept in the car while McKay and Manley paid a buck to sleep in a railroad car with a porter n'everything. 70 miles IW011day-August 8 I V Monday we spent the whole day lying around in Rapid City while we had the valves ground. In the morning we went up in an aeroplane. Saw the School of Mines, the fish hatchery and the Indian Camp. In the afternoon McKay and I roamed the hills around Rapid City. At night we went to a Sioux War Dance and then went to bed in a lodging house. 17 miles Tuesday-August 9 XfVe left Rapid City after a good break- fast. VVe will remember Rapid City for its real meals. Waffles, toast and coffee- S025. Three hamburgers, coffee and pie- iB0.25. For miles we wound around over the ledges of red sandstone covered with pinon trees. About noon we came down out of the Black Hills into the sage lands. Miles and miles of grey blue sage without a tree in sight. Late in the afternoon the Big Horn Mountains loomed up out of the mesa. We spent the night in Sheri- dan. A hail storm visited, us 'during the night, the hail being as big as golf balls, 3l4 miles Wrdnesday-August I0 Slept in the car and darn near froze. Arose early and went up into the Big Horns, Up, up wound the road over rocky ledges and through spruce thickets. For 60 miles we didn't see a soul but a couple of rangers, a Wildcat, and a bunch of whistlers. The mountains were filled with red-headed woodpeckers and chipmunks. At last we came down out of the Big Horns into the desert. Miles of sage, sand rocks, and prairie dogs. We Iinally reached Cody and went up into the Sho- shone Mountains. At the entrance to Yel- lowstone Park we saw the Shoshone Dam, next to the highest in the world, and Shoshone Gorge and the Tunnel Road. We slept that night high up in the Sho- shones in a field of bitter sweet sage. 230 miles -Mg