Roadwork

(1963 October 7)

Your letter caught up with us just as we were about to leave for Milwaukee to visit Daddy's aunts [Mabel & Lee]. We were happy to have a good day and a good car and thot no fly in no ointment, but a gnat anyway in that you never saw so many men tearing up so many roads with so much machinery. I knew how it had got under Daddy's skin when he told Lee there were "hundreds of thousands" of 'em. When we got to Milwaukee, same thing [on city streets]. We are trying to outdo the Romans.