February 19, 1946
February 1946. World War II is over and wartime production jobs were ending. During the war, Carl and Georgie worked a number of jobs in several places, finishing the war in Pocatello, Idaho. They elected to return to Iowa, where they both had family, but opted to make a grand tour of the west on the way. Georgie wrote a journal of the trip. The story starts here.
The next morning Carl got maps and got the trailer swivel greased. Left Ontario and drove to Burns where we stopped for lunch. The country was very barren all the way from Ontario to Bend, a distance of 237 miles, all high desert. There were cattle grazing and now and then a road leading to a ranch house. Stopped at an oil station along the way, Juntura, and at another oil station not listed on the map. Met very little traffic. The weather was cloudy and gray – rather dreary.
February 19, 1946
February 1946. World War II is over and wartime production jobs were ending. During the war, Carl and Georgie worked a number of jobs in several places, finishing the war in Pocatello, Idaho. They elected to return to Iowa, where they both had family, but opted to make a grand tour of the west on the way. Georgie wrote a journal of the trip. The story starts here.
The next morning Carl got maps and got the trailer swivel greased. Left Ontario and drove to Burns where we stopped for lunch. The country was very barren all the way from Ontario to Bend, a distance of 237 miles, all high desert. There were cattle grazing and now and then a road leading to a ranch house. Stopped at an oil station along the way, Juntura, and at another oil station not listed on the map. Met very little traffic. The weather was cloudy and gray – rather dreary.