After the Junior (or was it Senior) Prom, Jim Smith, Fred Fincham, Russ Carmack and I took off for California – just to say we did.  We made it to Crescent City, but not before spending most of the night in Roseburg, Oregon with car trouble.  Roseburg turned out to be quite an adventure, but I’ll leave that part of the story for another time (it has nothing to do with the photo above; they’re just friends!).

The cost to repair the car was more than any of us had, so we wound up promising to send money when we got home.  Since it was Jim’s car, the bills kept coming to his house for months.  Jim told us later that he had sent a letter the gas station, signing his mother’s name, telling them that he had died in an auto accident and that she wouldn’t be responsible for his debts.

Thanks to Russ’ Hasselblad camera, these shots are the only remaining evidence of the trip.  Apparently, he was the only one who knew how to use a camera, since there’s no picture of him here!