record of expenditures 1934

cost of lodging during the trip

Geneva and Arlene list animals and birds that they saw on the trip     Gas and oil  expenses

Geneva and Alrene also wrote down the names of all the towns, rivers and creeks they passed some of the writing might be Grandma Lena's

 

August 31- September 2, 1934

August 31- September 2, 1934

Friday — left Cody at 6:00, on to Greybull and there we decided to take the Shell Canyon road thru the Big Horn Mts.  Too new and too narrow to suit me.  )Wonderful curves and climbs but I liked the Ten Sleep Canyon road lots better.)  Here we were 8,850 ft. above sea level.  Clouds were sometimes below us.  Damp and Foggy with poor vision for several miles.  Then out of the clouds and into the sunshine and oh! what a view of roads, irrigated valleys, towns, cattle and all.  On to Sheridan, Ucross, Gillette, Moorcroft, and really time to camp but we headed to Spearfish so we could make it home on the following day.  Got to Spearfish about 9 or 9:30.  Fine cabin for $1.00.

Saturday September 1 — Started again, stopped at Crystal Cave in the Black Hills.  Bought our dinner rolls, etc in Rapid City and then took No. 40 thru the Badlands but should have taken 16 as we found No. 40 very poor and unmarked.  Got on 16 again at Kadoka but we had spent a lot lof time in covering a few miles, so we were hrs. behind.  At Reliance we run into rain and there on home it was raining or had rained more or less and mostly more.

Stopped for hot sandwiches in Chamberlain and after that the girls curled up and went to sleep and never woke up until we got stuck in the mud east of Ole Hodne’s at 3:30 on Sunday morning.  Sept. 2nd 1934.

505 miles driven on the last day

4,738 miles in all

lacked 4 hrs. of 3 weeks away.       

through the Big Horn Mountains

August 29-30, 1934

100 years ago Sunday Roy and Selma were married November 21, 1921.

August 29, 1934

Wed. Aug. 29  on the move again to Butte, Three Forks and Gallatin Gateway, following Gallatin river and on to West Yellowstone for Wed. night. (cabin $1.00)  Here Roy had to have the Universal joint fixed and they stung him for $5.00.  West Yellowstone and Cody are both noted for the way they charge.

Thurs. Aug. 30— back into Y.N.P. to Madison Junctions, Geyser basins, Old Faithful, West Thumb, Yellowstone Lake and out again at East Entrance.  At Wapiti, Wyo. clouds began to gather and it snowed hard on the mountain tops.  We could see them getting whiter and whiter.  Struck lots of rain between Wapiti and Cody.  Thru the Shoshone Canyon road again and into Cody just in time to get the last cabin $1.25

August 26-28, 1934

August 26-28, 1934

Sunday Aug. 26, — Left Portland via the beautiful Columbia River hiway, very pretty and a good wide road.  Thru “The Dalles” where Linda used to live, on to Umatillo, then to Hermiston and found where Carl and Belle live.  Were they every surprised?  I guess they had figured we South Dakotans were dying of starvation instead of out touring the US. ha!  Stayed here on Sunday night, leaving on Monday morning.

Monday - Tuesday

Back to Umatillo and the hiway again, into Washington to Pasco, to Ritzville, to Spokane a city of 116,000 then to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on up to Sandpoint.  Here we crossed a bridge 2 1/2 miles long.  Found Ada at 520 S. Lavina  Did not get to see Clarence as he was out fighting forest fires.  Kenneth (8) and Gerald (19mo.) were both cute little boys.  Stayed here on Monday night, leaving on Tues. forenoon via Clark Fork, Ida.  Thompson Falls, Mont. to Missoula where we stayed on Tues. night.  Here we had a 2 room double cabin for $1.25.

No idea if or how Coulston's are related  update Coulston's are related on the Arnold side to Great Grandma Elizabeth Angeline Arnold Sanford.

August 24-25, 1934

Friday Aug. 24, up early and to Aunt Carrie’s for breakfast.  Joe would like to have given the girls a “kid”.  After breakfast we started for the seashore.  Got our cabin for the night $1.00.  Here we enjoyed salmon, flounder and crab.  Had our first sight of the Pacific.  Such a noise, roar or whatever you may call it.  

Up early on Sat. morning to be out on the beach when the tide was out.  Found shells and pried star fish off the rocks.  Back to the cabin for breakfast, took picture of tame deer, cooked the star fish, etc.  Went back to the beach with swimming suits on.  Ooo-oooh! was that water cold?  Just like ice water and my how those waves did hit you.  Swimming or rather playing with the waves is allowed only when the tide is coming in.  (About six hours coming in and 6 hours going out.)

Had an early dinner and left our camp at Nelscott Beach.  Got to Portland, a city of 302,000, on Sat. afternoon, could not find any trace of Linda, tried to phone Ebba, but no luck there either.  Found Ellen Joneson at 2857 N.E. 46th Ave., had supper with her, visited a while and then went to a tourist camp in Eastern Portland and spent the night ($1.00)

August 20 - 23, 1934

Monday August 20, 1934

Monday — started with intentions of getting to Kardells at Eugene before dark but we did enjoy the scenery at the McKenzie Pass and took more time than we should have looking at the lava beds and snow covered mountain peaks.  Stopped at a cabin (Eugene) for the nite $1.00. (poorest of all)

Tuesday  — found Fred Kardell first, he took us to see Delbert, George and his family and then out to Charley & Blanche, Charles Ray  and Jackie had grown  a lot.  The baby was 7 1/2 months old and goes by by the name of Buck.  We were here for dinner and then thru a saw mill and a cannery.   Stayed here all night leaving after Breakfast on Wed.  Had the swellest onions here I have ever eaten (Bermuda).

Don't know how the Kardell's are related 

Selma, Geneva, Roy, Arlene, and Lena on right

Wed. — went to Salem and out to Ted’s place near Macleay, according to Elmo’s directions, just in time for dinner, visited the rest of afternoon and then to Aunt Carries in evening mother staying and the rest of us returning with Ted and Mable.  

On Thursday to a picnic at Silver Creek Falls where we swiped lots of ferns growing wild everywhere.  Also drove around by Silverton on return road.  Saw many places of interest in Salem which Mabel and Ted showed us.

                                      Ted and Mable Olson with Arlene, Geneva and Roy 

Ted is brother to Ida Wright in previous post. Their mother is Carrie sister to Selma's mother, Lena. Now I understand why Grandma had a family/mostly town history of Macleay in the Waldo Hills, Oregon Theodore W. Olson self published in 1975.  Tucked inside are hand written notebook pages of Arlene's for her Civics class in 1939.

August 17 - 19, 1934

August 17-19, 1934

Friday Aug. 17  Turned back to Madison Junctions to West Yellowstone and out of the park.  Drove a few miles in Montana, and then into Idaho Falls, Pocatello and American Falls where we gave $1.00 for a cabin.

Saturday morning August 18 — On to Twin Falls where they claim to have the largest irrigation project in the U.S.  Lots of alfalfa and fruit, etc.  Boise where we changed batteries, the old one having gone “hay-wire”  Stopped at Ironside Oregon for .75c (even helped ourselves to a second cabin)

Sunday Aug. 19 — Drove to John Day and then decided we had better get our permit issued to non-residents for driving in Oregon.  Prineville, then Redmond, and next to Terrebonne, where we got directions to C.W. Heims, Crooked River Ranch.  My card had not arrived so we certainly did surprise Ida and Elmo Wright they are the managers of Crooked River Ranch.  This was Sunday afternoon and we left Mon. after dinner.  Stayed in the millionaires house that nite and will we ever forget that bath tub?

Ida  was a cousin of Selma's spelled Eda in the Decendants of Olaf D.J. Olson and Lena Hansdotter Olson family history.  Lena Hansdotter Olson was Selma's Grandmother.

Selma, Lena (Selma's mother), Arlene, Geneva, Ida and Elmo

August 16, 1934

Thursday August 16, 1934

Thurs. — Saw more geysers and hot spring formations, beautiful terraces of many colors, devils kitchen, etc.  Tasted the Apolinaris Spring.  Rather bitter, but good for lots of ailments.  Past the Obsidian Cliffs, brot a sample along.  “Warning — Do not Feed the Bears — They are dangerous”  These signs were seen thruout the park.  Others we saw frequently, “Slow,” sound horn, keep to right, danger — narrow road, men working, road under construction, one way traffic, S curve, hairpin curve, etc.!

The Ranger Stations in the park have their share of funny questions.  One guy walks up to the Information Desk and asks, “What kind of information do you have here?”

Another rushes up and wants to know how long before Old Faithful plays again.  Upon being told he would only have to wait about 20 minutes he replied, “I haven’t time to wait on it but give me a “sticker” as I want to prove to the folks back home that I was here anyway.”

An old lady came up and asked “Where is the old geezer?” Anyone might have thot she was looking for  her husband but the ranger supposed she meant the old faithful geyser so he politely told her where she might see it.  Then the next question was “When do you flush it again?”

                                                                   Old Faithful Geyser

Black bear

August 15, 1934

Wednesday August 15, 1934

Wed. Aug. 15.  Noticed the first coal mines at Gillette, Wyo.  At Greybull, Wyo. oil tanks everywhere.  Here are Standard Oils refineries for 11 states.

Leaving Cody by way of Cody road we saw the wonderful Shoshone Dam and the $80,000 a mile road.

Entered the Yellowstone Park at Eastern entrance $3.00 license fee for the car regardless of how many passengers.  Our elk horn was made a note  of as people are not allowed to take them out of Y.N.P.

About the time we entered the Y.N.P.  Geneva felt sick to her stomach for a few hours,  I made the suggestion she was most likely seasick and Arlene said, “I should think it would be “scenery sick” instead.”

Drove by Sylvan Lake and Lake Eleanor, past Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge, The Stinking Mud Geysers, Petrified Tree, and on to Mammoth Hot Springs.  Went on a Guide Tour after supper, saw antelope, beaver, buffalo. $1.25 for cabin here.  During the night a big brown grizzly tipped the garbage can right outside the cabin.

We happened to stop along a creek once while Roy walked back a few steps for some road information and Arlene said, “oh let’s all go swimming while he is over there.”

Shoshone Dam "Stinking Water"  Shoshone Reservoir and Shoshone Cliffside drive below