The Beach family, Charles, Doretta, Lela and Claude, set out from Cornwall, Ontario on October 18, 1921. This is Doretta's diary. Nov. 29th. Weather beautiful. Mr. Thompson came at half past nine and took us all over to Walla Walla, had lunch and got back at five, had dinner and at seven Mr. McRae came for us and we went over there for the evening and stayed until eleven thirty. Nov. 30th. Weather still mild wrote some letters. After dinner Mr. Thompson came over for us to go to the Fox Farm, but Lela was in bed with a headache, so we could not go. Mrs. McRae called in the evening. Very windy. Dec. 1st. Raining hard and wind blowing all forenoon. After lunch Mr. Thompson came and took us to Woolen Mills and to Fox Farm. After we got back the McRae's called and we had decided to leave in the morning. Still rainy and high wind. Dec. 2nd. Wind still blowing and cold, but bright. We got up at six o'clock, had breakfast and had car at hotel door and found some of the people from other were not going and Mr. Thompson thought we should wait another day and be sure the road was open, so we decided we would. Lela went over to Mrs. McRae's about nine o'clock and they phoned me he would come for me at twelve so he did, and she was entertaining her club so we were there until after six. Then they brought us down and we went to the Episcopal Church to their bazaar and looked around at the fancy work. Then went over to hotel and they went home about half past eight and we went to bed. Chas. had been feeling miserable all afternoon, but feeling better in evening. Pat Foley Hotels. The Dalles, Oregon. Dec. 3rd. Up at six o'clock and ready to leave Pendleton at quarter after seven. Weather bright and cool, found roads fine and came right through to Dalles a hundred and forty two miles, and got here at twenty after twelve. Saw apparently no snow; until we struck pavement coming in town about four miles out and got in town to find snow piled up on either side of street three or four feet high. On our way stopped and viewed where the trains were that had been wrecked three nights ago where ten people had been killed and forty injured, when two passenger trains met. Had a nice drive following the Umatilla River to the Columbia River at Umatilla town and then following the Columbia all the rest of the way on one side and mountains on the other. The Columbia river had funny rock formation sticking up in river and along shores and some very nice rapids and Libby's Salmon canning factory along on shore. Dec. 4th. Weather bright and cold went to church. Expecting the boat all day every one took the cars down to wharf and waited until after six, and then brought it up to garage until about ten and Claude took it down again and the boat came at one o'clock, and it took all night to load so he was up all night. Multnomah Hotel, Portland, Oregon Dec. 5th. Up at half past five had breakfast and on the boat for to leave at seven o'clock. Weather mild and foggy until about noon and the scenery was wonderful all along the Columbia Highway [OSA]. We, with about a half dozen other cars got off the boat at Vancouver, Wash., about twelve miles from Portland and motored in, arriving about half past four P.M. Got located, cleaned up, had dinner and went to bed. Rev 2006-01-28