Diary of my great trip "West" from June 1937 to August 1938. At the time we left I was fourteen, Mabel ten, Milton seventeen, Mama fifty-one, Papa forty-nine, and Ivan twenty-one. So begins Adella's diary of her family's fourteen-month adventure from northern Indiana to southern California and back in a Trotwood trailer nicknamed, "Apple Dumpling." On the way, they see presidential faces being carved at Mt. Rushmore, meet grizzly bears at Yellowstone, and gaze up in awe at giant Sequoias. Adella spends her sophomore year at Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, where she must adjust to...