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• • • .* • * /A • *• . * • . - • . . - . .- Miss Loretta Shadow was one of three Rus-tbn ;glris- who. returned lost weekend' from a; trip to the Girl Scout Roundlip In Idaho. Miss Shadow Wrote her parents daily'of events which occurred during the, outing. The Daily “Leader presents her reports* ;os revealed ini these condensed fetters.7 p.m. ' We lt;ue now sts at Pueblo, Colorado. Eve is getting tired of riding -haven’t eaten supper yet, we hear we are having 3 chicken.9 p.m. We just got theating, and then we went-Weied■''£ It Is about S .30 this, morning. The sun is shining verybrightly and We are somewhere northwest of Amarillo, Texas. The* scenery is reap pretty but was .even prettier a while back.We ate Breakfast about 8:30— it Wasn’t too good. We: had baked apples; sweet rolls, orange juice, milk, and cereal.;• Dale and I are with Cindy Tomlin in a bedroom. It is about the size of one bathroom at home!ing. We were given a bear a= rer to keep the bears aWe wear these on our w» The food . tonight was They had under-seasoned xr ed potatoes, English peas, chicken, but not Southern SC and canned peaches.Last night Date and I slept on the bottom—I had my back against the wall, .and poor Dale fell off every time . the train jerked, which was quite frequent. Dale didn't sleep too well since she found herself on the floor so readily and she ended up sitting on my feet by the window and watching the sun rise. This morning I woke up to the flashing light of Judy Lil’s camera ITonight we won t do anyt: else so I’ll sign off We having a good time.July 13 Last night as we were to get ready for bed, they-us that we would be able t off in Denver for 30 minutwas great to hit solid gr*« again. There were so many in the station that we neveir anything except fresh air-that was a help. It was grees.Last night we decided we couldn't take another of sleeping on a bed that vvWe got to Dallas about 8:30 and switched trains. We had a slight mixup. Tomorrow we go to Glacier, and today we don't Bo anything.t. 12:10 p.m: We had a patrol .meeting about 2 hours ago. We found out that we won’t eat ^dinner until about 2;30. There• at-e 17 cars of girls on here. We are in New Mexico now, and- the i-scenery - is beautiful.• VVe are about 300 miles from Denver, I.believe, but we are ; riot to .get, We haye. secret service men everywhere.j They are supposed ;to 'take • us,.-2:30 p.m. We just got back from lunch. We got to go a little early. We had spaghetti and meat balls—the spaghetti wqs. gooey and stuck to the ropf of your mouth and your teetjb and the meat balls were grttty and meally and tastedof the lowest e hot tamali. The tea was sweetened so that it was like Ryzsp and was warm—no ice. The rofls were the best of all, ibut tasted like brown and serve rolls that had just been serv-ed-i-no browning—not even healed, j We also had apple cobbler ;that hdd fermented apples.\ i‘We: aife beginning to get into rtbe mountains. The plant life, especially the trees are so scrub-' by. and are an ugly, unnourish-ted green. When you look out at the forest” they look like about the size of Louisiana trees from ah airplane. We are passing a : borsch of dry rivers.big as a single bed, so wr cided to get some extra si and blankets from the px* and fix a 3rd bed on the fl on top of that Cindy has a When she leaves out, Dale get out our closet spray disinfect the room and thing.We woke up in Wyoming: morning just past Chey. Now we have been in 5 statLa., Texas, New Mexico, Co-do and Wyoming.We are paying 20 cents canned cpkes. That is all can get an the train.2:05—We just got backdinner—it was better thazTt-ual. While we were at lunc went under 3 short tunnels went through rock. We passed those rushing rivers-green water and beautiful tains behind them. A m the train told us it was o the largest hot mineral bodies in the world. We a rating into the mountains x: now arid it is really pretty.Dale, Judy I.il and I sux-wish that you wouldsenlt;some maps so we can trae^-— trucks.(How is that for a ^They are dropping our cUt car at Billings, Montana cause we eat the rest of meals off the train.This afternoon as we rocl^es tried to identify plants s the way. In Wyomingwere real low and spr~ cactus' similar to our par near except thev were s Wp found something thatfoliage like our milk weedlbeautiful pink blossoms. I * it is milk weed. The tallowtlhisra-forwe- lt;3ousour. ing“the
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Ruston Daily Leader
Ruston, Louisiana, US
Mon, Aug 02, 1965
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