Day 14: 5 Hours in the Historical Society Archives

It has been a blinding day. I have gone through about 15 pounds of research and all of it was handwritten in little tiny, precise script. I am so totally overwhelmed with all that I had copied today-about 150 pages some of them two-sided-that I can't even bear to look at them right now. Elizabeth Wright put her whole life into recording all of the family lines that were related to her, and there were quite a few-mine being only one of them. I only saw about one fifth of what she had done.

While I researched, John did some errands, bought a couple of books and did some "reading" through napping eyes.

When John picked me up, we decided that we needed some walking excersize (last night's dinner was pretty decadent so I decided that today should be a water and Saltines kind of day), so we headed over to the Sunken Garderns. Perhaps if it hadn't been 102 degrees and extremely windy, we might have spent more time. As it was, we took a quick tour-it's not very big-and then we headed out for a lighter dinner of Chinese food. Now we're camped out in the motel room taking advantage of a low-energy day to plan our trip to North Platte tomorrow. There are all kinds of intersting kitschy road-side attractions that I need to talk John into. We also need to contemplate the air-conditioning in the truck: it's effectiveness is dwindling. Not a good thing as we head West and it was still in the high 90's when we drove back from dinner.

I'll sign off for now and talk to you tomorrow. John wants me to add that it is really, really, really hot......

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