Granny's Letters:
We reached Ft. Pierce in the evening of the fourth of December and went in camp just north of town, They have a fine court house, all towns in the south have nice court houses. We bought some gas and eats to do over Sunday, paid 37¢ for gas, the most we have paid yet, one place they asked 34¢ but we did not buy any. We find that the large places are the cheapest on gas. The camp at Ft. Pierce is just new, it will be a good camp some day. Nearly every town has a camp, it brings them trade. There was a Tin Can meeting at either Titusville or Ft. Pierce Sunday, we cleaned up a little and started over but our machine went bad about 2 miles from a little town called Salerno. Carry pulled us in the garage man was gone but a man came along in a Ford and fixed it, there was lint on a pin someplace, he fixed it in about 10 minutes and charged us $1.00. We made Palm beach about 1 o'clock drove out to the beach and ate our dinner, they were bathing and having a fine time. We came on to Ft. Lauderdale the home of the Seminole Indians. We drove 115 miles the best drive we have made yet, but the roads were the finest I have ever seen, we had over 100 miles of it, they are tar roads. We came nearly all the way along the water, water on the one side and orange groves on the other and fine homes where the land was under cultivation and water on one side and swamp on the other where it was not. We saw our first pineapple field and first cocoanut trees on Sunday. The cocoanuts are most beautiful. We have not seen any pineapple on the plants yet. The Lauderdale camp is the best camp we have found yet, they have electric lights, city water, toilets and everything handy, they have the ground covered with shavings. We got in late Sunday. Mrs. Willy Bitner did not travel with us Sunday, we caught them just out of Lauderdale. We joined the campers around the circle (they don't need a fire here) the people are very nice. It is like our very hottest summer weather. Too hot for me. Monday December the 6th we went to Miami, it is sure a fine place. We did our Christmas shopping and got the first mail we have had since we left home. Miami is the most beautiful but it is for the rich. We found prices about the same for things that we wanted as other places. We did not try to buy eats. We left our tent at auderdale and drove down in Carries machine, our brakes were not good. We drove out across the bay on a road that is built solid through the water, it was a wonderful drive and the most beautiful homes and cocoanuts all along the road. It is no use to tell about it because I can't. We went one road and came back the ocean drive. It was 25 miles from camp. It was a fine day and we did not go home until after dark. We had supper and went to the tin can meeting and then went to bed. On December the 7th Frank, Carrie, and I went to the beach to get shells before breakfast, Osie stayed at home and washed. The men got a few shells. I did not come home, had breakfast about 10 o'clock, the rest wrote letters and I went a tent of a sister camper to learn how to make shell bags.