Day 2 -- Saturday, June 27

After a day of long traveling, which I didn't mind, we arrived at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Here we met Billy Costia and we set off for Niagara Falls which we hope to hit Monday morning. It really surprised me but we take the riding very leisurely rarely going over 50 m.p.h. I can see now that we'll average about 250 to 300 miles per day.

Yesterday we traveled up to Bear Mountain and up to Amherst college at Amherst, Mass. There Mr. Stallings knew the Physics prof. A few of the boys and I then spent an interesting evening. We went down to the physics lab with the prof. to observe the experiment being made by a graduate student. He was experimenting and trying to find out the amount of energy given off by a tiny radioactive piece of Cobalt, taken from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, home of the A-bomb experimenting. This piece of Cobalt was as strong as a few grams of radium but it didn't last as long. The next morning, today, we inspected the college and I was very impressed with it. By the way, we spent the night on the Professor's back porch. I didn't get much sleep then (I only slept from 3 to 7) but I hope to make it up on the Costia's back porch tonight. Tomorrow we set off for the wilds.

Traveling today we saw Deerfield Academy and stopped off to see it. We also stopped at Hanover where I saw some of Dartmouth. It also is a very beautiful place.

So far the meals have been excellent. Friday noon we ate at a diner. At night we ate at the Amherst Cafeteria -- meals excellent. Friday noon we ate breakfast there and lunch at a nice place in the Hanover. After supper of sandwiches at the very hospitable Costia's, we had a game of softball.

The brace isn't bothering me so you need not worry. We heard the Louis-Wal fight and am glad with the results. I'll write to Grandma and the folks soon. I'm having a swell time and I'm sure it will continue. We're all getting along swell.