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9-25-63

Dear Mother & Daddy,

Well, we did the covered wagon bit in reverse.
The trailer tried to do it sideways, but
after many adjustments, Jim finally got it to
follow in the conventional manner, from Nebraska
on. Right after we got to Mass., it began to rain, &
since we were coming down the Berkshires, the tlr.
began to slide & sway, so we took the first turnoff
that looked close to Boston & found a motel. We were
in Framingham, which is supposed to be 20-30 min.
from downtown Boston, where the school is, but it
took us up to 2 hrs in this fantastic traffic. We have
good maps from 3A & Standard Oil, but they don't show
construction detours, no left turns, and many of
the street & highway signs fell down & never were
put up again. By the time I found my way home
from school at night, had dinner in a restaurant, & got the
kids settled down, it was a little late to go house-
hunting in the rain. Jim saw one that looked good
in the paper, in Cambridge, which is near the school,
& which was reccomended to us as a good rental area
by several people. We finally got thru by phone to the
owner who told us to see the supt. at the bldg. His
phone was constantly busy, but she said go over
anyway, as late as necessary. After getting lost
over a few tall bridges on the way to Connecticut,
we arrived at 11:00 P.M, but the guy was very nice.
There were vacant apts. The first one we looked at
was on the 3rd floor, up stairs about 3 ft. wide. It was
nice, & we spent almost 5 min. admiring it before
it occurred to us that we'd never get our furniture up