Arnold and Newlin: Road Trip Out West 1972

We camped our way out West, picnicking instead of eating in restaurants and saving money from motels. In west Texas a strong wind storm bent and broke a tent support rod in the large of the two tents, and Arnie could not repair it until we got to Whittier, so we stayed the next few nights in motels, enjoying refreshing swimming pools. 

Newlin, Eric, Joel, Allan, and Andrew

Newlin, Joel, Andrew, Allan, and Eric

Newlin and Andrew at camp

Joel Allan, Eric, Andrew, and Newlin camping and cooking out 

our Buick, safe as a tank but a gas guzzler

We returned to Florida on a northern route that took us through Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons. In Yellowstone we bumped into the Collins family, close friends from our neighborhood. We knew that our routes might overlap but we had expected to be weeks apart so it was a surprise when we arrived later than anticipated and they arrived earlier to meet up at the visitor center.

Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

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Leonard's wife Pat writes to his family about the remainder of their itinerary and about some things they bought in Canada and sent from New York State.

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A letter from Leonard to his parents in Glendale and a joint letter from Leonard and his wife Pat to his brother Arnold. Leonard bore those bear teeth scars for the rest of his life. That bear incident came back in a slightly scary way some fifteen years later, when we were camping in California with Leonard's sons (from a second marriage): Arnold returned to the camper to report that bears were spotted at the campground trash area, then Leonard's five-year-old second son Larry ran off with a stick wanting to hit that bear that bit his father. Arnold had to grab him quick to explain that the bears are extremely dangerous (and also these are not the same one that scarred his father).

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Bill Nevis writes to his son Leonard at General Delivery, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. I am curious what urgent matter Leonard would need to work with the American Foreign Legion on. 

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