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.
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